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The  Annals 


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CHRIST  CHURCH  PARISH 


OF 


LITTLE   ROCK,  ARKANSAS, 


FROM 


A.  D.  1839   TO   A.  D.  1899. 


COMPILED  BY 

ELLEN  HARRELL  CANTRELL. 


"If  there  be  no  nobility  of  descent,  all  the  more  indispensable  is  it,  that  there 
should  be  nobility  of  ascent — a  character,  in  them  that  bear  rule,  so  fine  and  high 
and  pure,  that  as  men  come  within  the  circle  of  its  influence,  they  involuntarily 
pay  homage  to  that  which  is  the  one  pre-eminent  distinction,  the  royalty  of  virtue." 

— Bishop  Henry  C.  Potter. 


PRESS  OF 

Arkansas  Democrat  Co. 

LITTLE     ROCK, 

1900. 


Copyright,  1900, 
By  ELLEN  HARRELL  CANTRELL. 


TO 

MY    MOTHER, 

WHO   BEING   DEAD,    YET   SPEAKETH. 


PREFACE. 


The  burning  of  the  First  Episcopal  Church  in  Little 
Rock,  together  with  all  the  church  records,  on  Sunday,  Sep- 
tember 28,  1873,  has  been  felt  by  the  congregation  to  be  an 
ever  recurring  calamity,  as  incidents  and  dates  connected  with 
its  history  have  faded  almost  into  irreclaimable  obscurity.  It 
has  been  the  aim  of  the  writer  to  restore  the  main  facts  con- 
nected with  the  birth  and  progress  of  the  church  by  means 
of  oral  and  epistolary  tradition,  and  in  this  manner,  however 
inadequate,  to  fill  the  hiatus  caused  by  the  missing  data,  and 
then,  with  the  help  of  the  new  register,  to  continue  with  the 
annals  of  the  church  to  the  present  time. 

This  has  necessarily  been  a  slow  process,  especially  as 
the  work  has  been  designed,  from  the  beginning,  to  occupy 
only  such  legitimate  leisure  hours  as  the  demands  of  a  large 
family  have  left  unclaimed. 

The  profits  of  the  work,  if  any,  will  be  devoted  to  the 
missions  of  the  Diocese  of  Arkansas. 

ELLEN  HARRELL  CANTRELL. 

019  Scott  street,  Little  Rock,  Ark..  May  17,  1899. 


CONTENTS 


PART  FIRST. 


Portrait  of  Rt.  Rev.  Leonidas  Polk,  D.  D.,  Bishop  of  Arkansas  and 
the  Southwest,  later  first  Bishop  of  Louisiana — He  makes  a  visi- 
tation and  sends  the  Rev.  William  Henry  Christopher  Yeager 
as  Missionary  Minister,  to  organize  a  parish  of  the  Protestant 
Episcopal  Church,  in  Little  Rock — Biography  of  Bishop  Polk — 
Photograph  of  St.  John's  Church,  Ashwood,  Tenn.,  which  was 
built  by  Bishop  Leonidas  Polk  and  his  brothers. 

Portrait  of  First  Senior  Warden,  John  H.  Crease — Biographies  of 
Wardens  and  members  of  the  first  Vestry  and  choir. 

Biographies  of  some  heads  of  families  connected  with  the  first 
Church. 

Portrait  of  Rt.  Rev.  James  Hervey  Otey,  D.  D.,  LL.  D.,  first  Bishop 
of  Tennessee  and  Provisional  Missionary  Bishop  of  Arkansas 
and  the  Southwest — Biography,  with  pocket  diaries  and  letters, 
carefully  transcribed — The  building  of  the  Church — Its  consecra- 
tion by  Bishop  Otey — Appointed  Bishop  of  Arkansas  to  succeed 
Bishop  Freeman  in  1858 — Accepted,  but  died  in  1863,  before 
making  another  visitation. 

Biographies  of  second  and  third  missionary  ministers,  Rev.  James 
Young,  December,  1843  A.  D.,  and  Rev.  W.  T.  Saunders. 

Portrait  of  Rt.  Rev.  George  Washington  Freeman,  D.  D.,  second 
Missionary  Bishop  of  Arkansas  and  the  Southwest,  with  biog- 
raphy. 

Portrait  of  Rev.  Andrew  Field  Freeman,  first  Rector  of  Christ 
Church,  with  biography — Biographies  of  Wardens — List  of 
Vestrymen  and  choir  members. 

Ordination  John  Henry  Ducachet  Wingfield  to  the  Diaconate  by 
Bishop  Freeman  and  attending  Presbyters. 

Portrait  of  Rt.  Rev.  Henry  Ducachet  Wingfield,  D.  D.,  LL.  D.,  first 
Missionary  Bishop  of  Northern  California— Autobiography,  with 
account  of  ordination  as  given  in  a  Little  Rock  paper,  and 
letters. 


viii  CONTENTS. 

Portrait  of  Rev.  John  Thomas  Wheat,  D.  D.,  second  Rector  of  Christ 
Church,  with  biography  and  poems  written  at  eighty  years  of 
age — Biographies  of  Wardens,  with  list  of  Vestrymen  and  choir, 
with  letters — Biography  of  Acting  Rector,  Rev.  Wm.  C.  Stout. 

Portrait  of  Rt.  Rev.  Henry  Champlin  Lay,  D.  D.,  LL.  D.,  third  Mis- 
sionary Bishop  of  Arkansas  and  Indian  Territory;  translated 
to  Easton,  Md.,  as  first  Bishop,  with  biography,  letters,  and  ser- 
mon— Portrait  of  the  third  Rector  of  Christ  Church,  Rev.  P.  G. 
Robert,  with  biography — Biographies  of  Wardens  and  list  of 
Vestrymen  and  choir  members. 

Portrait  of  Rt.  Rev.  Henry  Niles  Pierce,  D.  D.,  LL.  D.,  fourth  Mission- 
ary Bishop  of  Arkansas  and  Indian  Territory,  and  first  Diocesan, 
having  served  twenty-eight  years,  in  this  jurisdiction — Portrait 
of  Rev.  Thomas  Booth  Lee,  fourth  Rector  of  Christ  Church,  with 
biography — Biographies  of  Wardens  and  list  of  Vestrymen  and 
choir   members — The   burning  of  the  Church. 

PART  SECOND. 

Poem — Photograph  of  the  second  church — Portrait  of  the  fifth  Rector 
of  Christ  Church,  Rev.  Tailing  C.  Tupper,  with  biography — Biog- 
raphies of  Wardens  and  list  of  Vestrymen  and  choir  members — 
Church  building  in  progress — Services  held  in  opera  house,  Cham- 
ber of  Commerce,  Supreme  Court  room,  in  Statehouse,  and  later, 
in  Christ  Church  Chapel,  cov  ring  a  period  of  fifteen  years. 

Portrait  of  the  sixth  Rector  of  Christ  Church,  Rev.  Wallace  Carna- 
han,  with  extracts  from  the  parish  paper,  which  he  edited  for 
three  years — Christ  Church  Rectory — Church  Described — First 
service  in  the  new  Church,  with  names  of  organist  and  members 
of  the  choir — Biographies  of  Wardens,  with  funeral  orations  on 
Senior  Wa  den,  Judge  W.  W.  Smith,  carefully  transcribed  from 
Supreme  Court  record — Portrait  of  first  Assistant  Rector,  Rev. 
JohnE.  H.  Galbraith,  with  biography — Brotherhood  of  St.  Andrew. 

Portrait  of  Rev.  John  Gass,  seventh  Rector  of  Christ  Church,  with 
biography  and  sermon;  account  of  memorial  services,  trans- 
cribed from  Little  Rock  paper — Biographies  of  Wardens — A  list 
of  Vestrymen,  and  first  vested  choir — Biography  of  Rev.  James 
Noble,  second  Assistant  Rector  of  Christ  Church. 

Biography  of  Acting  Rector,  Rev.  C.  C.  Kramer,  of  New  Iberia,  La. 


CONTENTS.  ix 

Portrait  of  Rev.  George  Gordon  Smeade,  eighth  Rector  of  Christ 
Church,  with  biography  and  parochial  report,  also  report  for 
the  committee,  as  chairman,  on  the  State  of  the  Church  in 
Arkansas,  as  given  in  the  Diocesan  Journal  of  1900 — Biographies 
of  Wardens  and  list  of  Vestrymen  and  members  of  choir. 

Missions  of  Christ  Church — St.  Paul's,  St.  John's,  St.  Luke's — War- 
dens of  Christ  Church — Treasurers  of  Christ  Church — Organists 
and  singers  of  Christ  Church — Officers  of  Ladies'  Aid  Society — 
Officers  of  the  Chancel  Society — Officers  of  Daughters  of  the 
King — Officers  of  Christ  Church  Branch  of  the  Woman's  Auxili- 
ary to  the  Board  of  Missions — Officers  of  St.  Cecilia's  Guild. 

Portrait  of  Rt.  Rev.  William  Montgomery  Brown,  D.  D.,  with  biog- 
raphy and  summary  of  his  work  in  Arkansas  as  given  in  Journal 
of  Twenty -eighth  Annual  Council. 


THE  ANNALS  OF 

Christ  Church  Parish, 

LITTLE  ROCK,  ARKANSAS. 


PART  FIRST. 


Little  Rock  was  a  field  for  missionaries  of  the  Christian 
religion  before  it  became  a  military  post.  The  dove,  emblem 
of  the  Holy  Spirit,  had  borne  the  olive  branch  with  its  message 
of  peace  to  the  heathen  of  the  trans-Mississippi  forests,  before 
cannon  and  other  equipments  of  war  had  been  transported 
to  enforce  it. 

A.  D.  1779-1825.  The  Roman  Catholic  missions  at 
Arkansas  Post  and  Pine  Bhiff  were  organized  in  1779.  Next 
came  the  disciples  of  John  the  Baptist  to  proclaim  the  Gospel 
in  this  wilderness  and  to  organize  a  mission,  in  1824.  The 
( liristian  Church,  which  was  an  offshoot  of  the  Baptist,  was 
established  here  in  1825,  by  the  Rev.  John  T.  Johnson,  of 
Kentucky,  who  represented  the  Society  of  the  "Disciples  of 
Christ."  Their  church  was  seated  on  Scott  street,  between 
Mulberry  and  Walnut  streets,  now  Third  and  Fourth. 

A.  D.  1827.  The  Presbyterians  came  next,  and,  in 
1827,  built  a  wooden  church  near  the  corner  of  Main  and 
Cherry  (now  Second)  streets. 


2  THE   ANNALS  OF   CHRIST   CHURCH   PARISH. 

A.  D.  1 830.  The  Roman  Catholic  priests  planted  a 
mission  here  in  1830,  and  built  a  church  on  the  northwest 
corner  of  Louisiana  and  Chestnut  (now  Seventh)  streets, 
which  was  afterwards  converted  into  a  convent  and  school 
for  girls. 

A.  D.  1833-1840.  The  Methodists  came  next,  and,  in 
1833,  built  a  brick  church  west  of  Main  on  Cherry,  or  Second 
street.  Seven  years  later,  in  1840,  as  the  following  letters 
will  show,  the  Episcopal  Church  was  established  in  Little 
Rock. 

Copy  of  a  letter  written  by  Bishop  Leonidas  Polk,  first 
Missionary  Bishop  of  the  Episcopal  Church  in  Arkansas,  to 
Mr.  John  II.  Crease,  of  Little  Rock  :* 

Columbia,  Tenn.,  June  26,  1810. 

To  John  H.  Crease,  Esquire : 

Dear  Sir — This  will  be  handed  you  by  my  reverend 
brother  Wm.  II.  C.  Yeager,  of  the  Episcopal  Church,  who 
goes  to  Little  Rock,  under  the  appointment  of  the  Church, 
with  a  view  of  laboring  among  you  as  a  minister.  Your 
interest  in  all  that  appertains  to  our  church  in  which  you 
have  been  sealed  will  insure,  I  am  confident,  a  welcome  recep- 
tion to  him  as  its  messenger,  and  all  the  aid  of  which  you 
are  capable  of  furthering  the  object  of  his  mission.  He  is 
kindly  commended  to  your  affections  and  attention.  I  had 
hoped  long  since  to  have  been  able  to  write  such  a  letter  as 
this  to  you  by  the  hands  of  an  individual,  who  goes  to  break 
to  you  the  bread  of  life,  but  although  diligent  efforts  have 
been  made  to  secure  the  services  of  a  competent  person  to  go 
to  you,  I  have  found  it  impossible  to  succeed  in  anywise  to 
my  wishes.  It  is  vastly  easier  to  make  applications  for 
laborers  than  to  secure  their  services.  Indeed  the  time  has 
never  been,  in  all  the  history  of  our  church,  when  there  was 


"By  courtesy  of  the  daughters  of  Mr.  J.  H.  Crease. 


THE   ANNALS  OF   CHRIST   CHURCH    PARISH.  3 

such  a  demand  for  ministers'  service  and  when  the  supply  of 
ministers  was  so  scant.  The  gentleman  who  goes  to  you, 
goes,  I  am  sure,  with  the  full  purpose  of  giving  himself  to  the 
work,  and  I  trust  that  under  God,  he  may  be  effectively  and 
eminently  useful.  I  perceive  by  the  papers  that  the  hand 
of  affliction  has  been  heavily  laid  on  you  and  yours,  since  I 
saw  you,  in  the  removal  of  both  your  estimable  son,  who  was 
taken  from  you  in  the  very  buddings  of  his  youthful  promise, 
and  your  son-in-law,  the  Rev.  Mr.  kelson.  The  latter  I  had 
hoped  might  have  consented  to  go  to  Little  Rock,  but  was 
assured,  when  in  Virginia,  that  he  could  not  be  induced  to 
leave  Bishop  Meade,  between  whom  and  himself  I  knew  there 
was  a  very  tender  attachment.  In  the  late  address  of  the 
Bishop  to  his  convention,  I  see  he  numbers  him,  not  only  as 
a  brother  by  marriage,  but  also,  and  much  nearer,  as  one 
whom  he  much  loved  in  the  Gospel.  I  hope  they  are  both 
at  rest,  and  that  their  early  retirement  from  the  engagements 
and  anxieties  of  life  may  warn  those  whom  they  leave  behind 
of  the  utter  uncertainty  of  all  human  hopes.  God,  I  trust, 
my  dear  sir,  has  not  left  your  family  comfortless,  but  has 
manifested  himself  to  you  in  the  bringing  about  of  a  more 
devout  and  constant  consideration  for  the  things  of  Eternity. 
I  shall,  if  God  will,  hope  to  see  you  and  your  friends 
generally  in  Little  Rock  this  winter.  With  my  kind  regards 
to  your  family, 

I  remain  your  friend, 

LE02sTIDAS  POLK. 

REV.   WILLIAM  HE^TRY  CHRISTOPHER  YEAGER. 

A.  D.  1839-1843.  Rev.  William  Henry  Christopher 
Y eager  was  the  first  Missionary  Rector  of  Christ  Church.  He 
was  ordained  Deacon  December  21,  1839,  by  Bishop  Leonidas 
Polk.  The  date  of  his  ordination  as  Priest  is  not  known, 
but  it  is  inferred  that  Bishop  Polk  ordained  him,  as  he  was 
assigned  to  duty  in  Little  Rock  in  June,  1840,  by  Bishop 
Polk.      'The    congregation    had    no    building    in    which    to 


4  THE   ANNALS   OF   CHRIST   CHURCH   PARISH. 

worship,  but  the  Wardens  and  other  Vestrymen  were  making' 
successful  efforts  to  accumulate  funds  for  the  purpose  of 
building.  The  letters  appended  to  this  meagre  sketch  will 
show  that  efforts  were  being  made  to  secure  help  from  with- 
out, while  the  subscription  list  which  the  first  Senior  Warden 
kept  shows  the  zeal  of  Rev.  Mr.  Yeager  and  his  congregation 
to  accomplish  that  object.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Yeager  conducted 
a  school,  Mrs.  Yeager  taking  the  musical  department.  She 
was  an  accomplished  musician  and  presided  at  the  organ  to 
conduct  services.  The  choir  was  composed  of  Mr.  John  H. 
Crease,  choir  master;  Mr.  William  E.  Ashley,  Mr.  Gordon  N". 
Peay,  Mr.  John  E.  Reardon,  Mr.  1).  C.  Fulton,  Mr.  T.  D. 
Merrick,  Mrs.  Helen  Scott,  Miss  Lavinia  Reardon,  Miss 
Harriet  Grafton,  Miss  Lizzie  Shall,  and  Mrs.  Yeager.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Yeager  had  one  little  daughter,  Clara  Ophelia,  at 
that  time.  Mr.  Yeager  resigned  his  position  as  Rector  in 
1S43.      It  is  not  known  now  where  he  removed  to. 

On  the  resignation  of  Dr.  Yeager  from  the  office  of 
Rector  at  Christ  Church,  the  vestry  adopted  the  following 
resolutions : 

Resolved,  Tliat  in  accepting  the  resignation  of  the 
Rev.  Wm.  H.  C.  Yeager,  as  Rector  of  Christ  Church,  we 
deeply  regret  the  necessity  that  constrains  a  separation ;  that 
we  tender  him,  in  the  name  of  the  congregation,  our  most 
grateful  thanks  for  the  zeal  and  fidelity  with  which  he  has 
labored  to  build  up  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  in  this 
city,  and  has  watched  over  the  spiritual  interests  of  the  flock 
committed  to  his  care;  that  he  carries  with  him  our  fervent 
prayers  for  his  prosperity  and  happiness  and  continued  use- 
fulness in  spreading  the  Gosj>el  of  our  Lord. 


THE   ANNALS   OF   CHRIST   CHURCH   PARISH.  5 

Copy  of  a  letter  of  Lambert  Reardon  to  the  Rev.  Dr. 
Wyatt,  Baltimore,  Md.  :* 

Little  Rock,  Ark.,  May  IS,  1841. 

Dear  and  Reverend  Sir — On  ordinary  occasions  I  should 
scarcely  deem  my  acquaintance  with  you  sufficient  to  author- 
ize my  addressing  you,  having  been  but  a  few  years  a  parish- 
ioner of  yours,  and  during  that  time  I  was  not  fortunate 
enough  to  be  very  intimate  with  you  and  a  lapse  of  years  may 
Lave  passed  from  your  mind  a  recollection  of  me ;  but  as  the 
object  of  the  present  communication  is  the  promotion  of  the 
Church,  it  must  be  my  apology  for  thus  obtruding  on  you. 
Dr.  J.  P.  Norman,  the  gentleman  who  will  hand  you  this, 
I  take  great  pleasure  in  introducing  to  you.  He  is  one  of  the 
few  pioneers  in  this  country  in  the  cause  of  the  Church,  and 
an  active  member  of  the  Vestry  in  this  place,  where  we  are 
making  an  effort  to  raise  the  first  Episcopal  Church  in  Ar- 
kansas. He  visits  his  friends  in  the  East  and  goes  author- 
ized to  ask  and  receive  such  aid  toward  our  undertaking  as 
our  friends  and  those  of  the  Church  may  feel  willing  to  give 
us.  There  are  in  this  place  about  twenty  families,  Episco- 
palians, who,  from  their  slender  means,  have  raised  sufficient 
to  purchase  ground,  put  up  the  walls  and  inclose  a  Church, 
which  we  propose  doing  this  summer,  and  the  object  of  our 
solicitations  is  to  obtain  something  towards  finishing  the 
inside  of  the  house,  and,  if  possible,  to  procure  an  organ. 

I  am  perfectly  aware  of  the  frequent  calls  on  our  East- 
ern friends  for  the  support  of  the  Church  in  various  ways,  but 
we  think  that  few  applications  for  assistance  are  made  that 
present  stronger  claims  on  our  more  favored  friends  than 
ours.  The  first  attempt  to  raise  the  standard  of  our  Savior 
by  the  Episcopalians  in  this  State  must,  when  known,  be  an 
object  of  great  interest  by  our  brethren  everywhere,  and,  as 
we  are  sure,  on  our  own  success  in  this  place,  the  prosperity 
of  the  Church  mainly  depends  in  this  State,  perhaps  for  many 


*Courtesy  of  Mrs.  Priscilla  Buckner  Reardon,  widow  of  Lambert  J.  Reardon,  and 
daughter-in-law  of  Lambert  Reardon,  Sr. 

—2  — 


6  THE   ANNALS  OF   CHRIST   CHURCH   PARISH. 

years.  Your  known  zeal  in  the  cause  of  the  Church  and  the 
liberality  of  your  parishioners  towards  the  cause  of  truth, 
gives  assurances  of  your  kind  offices  in  our  behalf. 

Our  friend,  Dr.  Norman,  will  be  absent  some  months, 
and  should  it  not  be  convenient  to  do  anything  for  us  while 
he  is  in  Baltimore,  perhaps  on  his  return  home  it  will  be.  He 
will  take  a  letter  to  Dr.  Henshaw  from  my  son-in-law,  Mr. 
Scott. 

With  great  respect,  your  friend  and  humble  servant. 

LAMBERT  REARDOK 

A.  D.  1842,  MARCH  31. 

Little  Rock,  Ark.,  March  31,  1842. 
To  the  Right  Rev.  Wm.  Meade,  I).  I).,  Bishop  of  Virginia : 

My  Dear  Sir — I  am  perfectly  aware  of  the  continued 
claim  upon  your  time  and  attention  to  administer  to  the  wants 
of  Churches  more  immediately  under  your  own  Bishopric,  yet 
I  am  nevertheless  constrained  by  a  knowledge  of  your  great 
zeal  and  liberality  in  such  cases,  and  by  the  personal  regard 
which  you  have  ever  manifested  toward  the  writer,  to  solicit 
your  influence  in  obtaining  pecuniary  assistance  for  our 
infant  association  of  Episcopalians  now  struggling  for  exist- 
ence in  this  city. 

We  have  but  a  limited  population  in  this  city  and  the 
Church-going  portion  of  that  number  was  previously  enlisted 
by  the  Presbyterian,  Methodist,  and  Baptist  societies,  which 
have  been  long  since  established.  These  have  each  collected 
their  own  adherents,  and  doubtless  proselyted  those  who  would 
have  given  "the  Church"  a  preference  had  one  been  then  in 
existence.  But  with  all  these  disadvantages  a  very  small 
band  of  persons  attached  to  the  service  of  the  Protestant  Epis- 
copal Church,  have  associated  themselves  together  for  the  pur- 
pose of  procuring  a  ministei  and  erecting  a  building,  wherein 
we,  and  all  those  similarly  disposed,  might  have  an  oppor- 
tunity of  worshiping  our  heavenly  Father  in  the  mode  prac- 
ticed and  taught  to  us  by  our  earthly  parents,  and  in  which 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  7 

service  all  our  early  associations  and  best  feelings  are  strongly 
enlisted. 

The  Missionary  Society  have  (out  of  their  limited 
means)  very  liberally  assisted  us  by  contributing  $400  per 
annum  towards  the  support  of  a  minister,  but  the  expense  of 
living  at  this  place  being  very  great  and  our  present  minister 
having  a  family,  it  is  incumbent  on  us  to  contribute  at  least 
$000  more  for  that  object,  besides  which  we  have  contracted 
for  (exclusive  of  the  ground)  and  nearly  finished  a  brick 
Church  at  a  cost  of  upwards  of  $4,000,  and,  when  our  means 
and  strength  are  somewhat  enriched,  wish  to  put  up  a  parson- 
age house  to  avoid  the  excessive  charge  of  rent.  We  are  also 
desirous  of  procuring  an  organ,  not,  as  I  think  you  will  readily 
believe  me,  from  any  desire  of  ostentatious  display,  but  in 
order  that  the  praises  of  God  (in  chants  and  hymns)  may  be 
performed  with  uniform  propriety  and  devotion,  and  as  our 
minister's  wife  is  a  perfect  proficient  in  music,  we  are  the 
more  desirous  of  giving  all  the  aid  in  our  power  towards  ren- 
dering that  portion  of  the  service  as  perfect  as  our  feeble 
capacities  are  able  to  make  it. 

The  society  in  whose  cause  I  am  now  pleading  is  the  first, 
and  at  the  date  of  its  commencement,  was  the  only  association 
of  Protestant  Episcopalians  within  the  whole  State !  The 
monied  obligations  to  carry  out  the  objects  in  contemplation 
are  too  heavy  to  be  sustained  by  the  few  persons  engaged  in  it, 
and  we  call  earnestly  on  our  Episcopal  brethren  to  assist  us 
in  making  the  "first  start"  and  by  God's  help  on  our  endeavors, 
we  trust  hereafter  not  only  to  support  our  own  Church  and 
minister,  but  to  pay  back  into  the  general  treasury,  for  the 
benefit  of  other  needy  churches,  the  sums  which  are  now 
bestowed  on  us.  I  am  the  more  earnest  in  taxing  the  exertion 
of  my  personal  friends,  from  the  circumstance  of  having  but 
recently  awakened  to  a  sense  of  the  impropriety  of  my  own 
conduct  in  suffering  a  month  of  personal  feeling  to  withdraw 
me  (for  a  reason)  from  my  duty  toward  the  Church,  That 
stumbling  block  is  now  removed,  and  I  thank  God  that  He 
has  shown  me  the  error  of  my  course.       The  change  of  time- 


8  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

and  great  reduction  of  salary  has,  however,  materially  lessened 
my  own  ability  to  contribute  to  the  work  and  likewise  prevents 
others  from  subscribing  thereto,  under  which  consideration,  I 
am  impressed  with  a  deep  sense  of  the  duty  imposed  on  me 
to  use  the  greater  diligence  and  exertion  in  repairing  (to  the 
utmost  of  my  ability)  the  injury  which  I  have  done  the  cause, 
by  withdrawing  from  its  support.  If  the  occasion  will  not 
give  warrant  for  my  public  appeals  within  your  diocese,  suffer 
me  to  request  that  you  will  personally  apply  to  some  few 
friends  of  the  Church,  whom  the  Providence  of  God  has  ren- 
dered abundantly  able,  and  whose  uniform  benevolence  has 
proved  them  to  be  ever  ready  to  contribute  towards  any  proper 
cause. 

Our  own  resources  are  exhausted,  leaving  us  in  debt, 
with  the  Church  unfinished,  and  donations,  however  small, 
will  be  most  thankfully  received  and  acknowledged. 

Before  I  close,  permit  me,  dear  sir,  to  tender  my  grateful 
acknowledgments  for  your  kindness  and  protecting  care  of 
my  much  beloved  and  bereaved  daughter,  Jane  IsTelson,  the 
recollection  of  which  is  indelibly  imprinted  on  all  of  our 
hearts,  and  the  prayer  of  the  widow  and  fatherless  will  daily 
ascend  to  the  Giver  of  every  good  and  perfect  gift,  that  His 
richest  blessing  may  descend  on  you  and  yours.  Mrs.  Crease 
desires  to  join  in  affectionate  regards  to  every  member  of  your 
own  family,  and  to  our  worthy  friends  at  Long  Branch,  and 
kind  remembrance  to  all  others  who  have  any  recollection  of 
or  regard  for  us,  and  with  sentiments  of  the  highest  respect 
and  regard. 

I  remain  most  truly  yours, 

J.  II.  CREASE.* 

Letter  from  Bishop  Meade,  of  Virginia,  respecting  col- 
lections for  church : 


*  Courtesy  of  the  daughters  of  John  H.  Crease. 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  9 

Staunton,  Va.,  May  19,  1842. 

To  Mr.  •/.  //.  Crease,  Little  Rock,  Arh.: 

My  Dear  Friend — Lest  you  should  for  a  moment  sup- 
pose that  1  neglect  your  letter,  I  seize  a  moment  of  leisure 
in  the  midst  of  convention,  and  with  a  bad  pen  and  paper 
write  to  say  that  I  have  just  received  your  kind  communi- 
cation. 

Would  that  I  were  able  to  enclose  you  something  or  knew 
who  were  both  able  and  willing  to  do  it.  My  dear  friend, 
if  you  knew  all  we  have  to  do  in  Virginia,  how  many  wish  to 
beg  for  new  Churches,  plain  ones,  without  organs,  but  dare 
not,  and  how  hard  the  times  are  with  us,  you  would  not  be 
surprised  at  rny  doing  nothing. 

I  hope  in  a  few  weeks  to  see  Jane  and  her  children.  They 
are  well,  I  hear.       I  trust  God  will  bless  them. 

Business  calls  me  away.       Love  to  all  yours. 
Your  sincere  friend, 

WILLIAM  MEADE. 

There  is  a  list  of  the  subscribers  to  the  building  fund  of 
the  first  Episcopal  Church,  carefully  entered  in  a  little 
account  book,  by  J.  H.  Crease,  and  his  successor  as  treasurer 
of  the  fund,  Lambert  Reardon.  The  names  are  here  given, 
ai.-1  will  be  read  with  interest : 

Bishop  Polk's  check,  $300,  sold  for  $970.  The  cost  of 
the  lots  was  $900,  which  was  paid  from  this  check.  The  list 
is  headed  with  the  names  of  those  who  made  the  collections 
from  the  citizens  generally :  Dr.  Yeager,  John  H.  Crease, 
Wm,  C.  Scott,  and  Jos.  Grubb.  The  list  continues  with  the 
names  of  Wm.  S.  Fulton,  Wm.  E.  Woodruff,  Edward  Dunn, 
J.  Mitchell,  John  Adamson,  Wm.  Prather,  Jas.  De  Baum, 
White  &  Le  Part,  Archibald  Yell,  Richard  F.  Dunn,  Jas.  C. 
Anthony,  S.  M.  Weaver,  Jno.  Humphries,  Charles  Rapley, 
W.  W.  Adams,  Julian  Imbeau,  Jno.  Brown,  E.  Y.  Baker, 


10  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

Joseph  Fenno,  James  B.  Keatts,  Chas.  B.  Magrader,  Elias  X. 
Conway,  Richard  C.  Hawkins,  Alexander  Boileau,  Sam  H. 
Webb,  0.  A.  Harris,  Wm.  Vance,  Jr.,  H.  Mitchell,  S.  C. 
Faulkner,  R.  B.  Sutton,  J.  A.  Hutchings,  Johnson  and  Lewis, 
Martin  George,  Sr.,  Arthur  Whitfield,  L.  D.  Evans,  Young 
Stephenson,  Wm.  Cummins,  R.  T.  Redman,  Wm.  Pelham, 
Samuel  Fasmacht,  Philip  L.  Anthony,  M.  C.  Sale,  J.  W. 
Tappe,  J.  Roth,  J.  B.  Badgett,  Wm.  Brown,  Jacob  Tute- 
weiler,  Ebenezer  Cummins,  II.  Haberman,  Geo.  A.  Worthen, 
Jos.  Grubb,  Stephen  S.  Tucker,  Mr.  McGowan,  Geo.  W. 
Johnston,  John  Henderson,  Josiah  Gould,  H.  E.  Blanck, 
J.  Wilberwomen,  D.  F.  Shall,  G.  X.  Peay,  cash  of  Haroldson, 
John  Robins,  F.  W.  Trapnall,  D.  J.  Baldwin,  B.  F.  Duval, 
Albert  Pike,  E.  H.  Roane,  Mary  E.  Dickinson,  M.  Killian, 
R.  A.  Watkins,  Bishop  Otey,  R.  C.  Byrd,  Judge  Ringo,  R.  W. 
Johnson,  M.  Schelthom,  Anthony  H.  Davis,  General  Hill, 
Witter,  Silas  Craig,  W.  H.  Gaines,  Simeon  Jaseph,  Thomas 
Thorn,  David  Bender,  S.  P.  Buckner,  W.  B.  Buckner,  W. 
Boardman,  C  A.  Cunningham,  -las.  Lawson,  Sr.,  Lambert 
Reardon,  L.  J.  Reardon,  John  Hutt,  Jas.  S.  Conway,  Major 
Butler,  Jno.  W.  Johnson,  L.  E.  Barber,  W.  R.  Dunn,  M.  P. 
Stewart,  Dr.  J.  P.  Norman,  Jno.  L.  Berg,  John  W.  Cocke, 
Xathaniel  Clifton,  George  X.  Causine,  Thos.  Butterworth, 
N.  T.  Gaines,  Thos.  W.  Newton,  Geo.  C.  Watkins,  M.  G. 
Davenport,  A.  Whitfield. 

There  was  an  additional  list  of  donations  made  by  non- 
residents of  Little  Rock  to  the  Vestry  of  Christ  Church  for 
the  purpose  of  completing  their  building.  These  gentlemen 
lived  on  plantations  on  the  Mississippi  and  Arkansas  rivers, 
and  in  the  interior  of  the  State,  viz :  Simeon  Buckner,  Wm.  B. 
Wait,  Wm.  S.  Fulton,  Jas.  S.  Conway,  Wm.  P.  Reyburn, 
Young  Stephenson,  S.  C.  Faulkner,  David  Walker,  Anthony 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  11 

II.  Davis,  G.  Hill,  and  D.  Twitten,   Silas  Craig,  Wm.  Ii. 
Gaines  and  Thos.  Thorn. 

Little  Kock,  May  20,  1843. 

To  the  Wardens  and  Vestry  of  Christ  Church,  Little  Rock: 

Gentlemen — The  undersigned  members  of  the  congrega- 
tion of  Christ  Church,  with  the  assistance  of  other  ladies  of 
Little  Rock,  held  a  fair  in  December  last  to  raise  funds  for 
the  benefit  of  the  Church. 

It  was  our  intention  to  appropriate  the  profits  of  the  fair 
to  the  purchase  of  an  organ  ;  but  in  consideration  of  the  embar- 
rassment under  which  you  labor  in  consequence  of  the  debts 
of  the  Church  and  the  difficulty  in  raising  money  to  pay  that 
debt,  which  we  are  informed  is  large,  when  compared  with  the 
means  of  the  congregation,  we  have  thought  that  the  interest 
of  the  Church  would  be  better  promoted  by  diverting  the  fair 
money  from  the  original  object  to  the  debts  of  the  church. 

For  these  considerations  we  are  willing  to  forego  our 
individual  wishes  for  an  organ,  and  now  tender  to  the  Church 
the  money  in  our  hands,  amounting  to  $1,106.50,  to  be  applied 
by  you  to  the  payment  of  her  debts.  Trusting  that  you  will 
approve  of  our  views  and  accept  our  contribution,  and  that  it 
may  relieve  you  of  embarrassment,  and  tend  to  promote  the 
interests  and  prosperity  of  the  Church,  we  remain 
Yours  very  respectfully, 

This  list  of  names  was  signed  individually,  the  last  two 
in  pencil : 

Jane  P.  Crease,  Mary  C.  Watkins,  Frances  M.  Trapnall, 
Mildred  Field,  Ann  Eeardon,  S.  F.  Johnson,  P.  A.  Reardon, 
L.  L.  Butler,  M.  M.  Johnston,  Jane  J.  Holt,  Mrs.  Cocke,  Mrs. 
Cook. 

(  est  of  Christ  Church,  from  treasurer's  book,  $4,243.17. 

( lost  of  the  lots  donated  by  Bishop  Polk,  $900. 

Acknowledgment  from  Vestry  of  Christ  Church  to 
"Lady  Managers  of  Fair,"  for  amount  of  $1,106.50: 


12  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

To.  Mrs.  Crease,  Wathins,  Etc. : 

The  Vestry  of  Christ  Church,  Little  Rock,  acknowledge 
the  receipt  of  your  letter  of  the  20th  of  May,  tendering  to  the 
church,  to  be  applied  in  payment  of  her  debts,  the  sum  of 
$1,106.50,  being  the  profits  of  a  fair  held  by  you  for  the  pur- 
pose of  purchasing  an  organ. 

We  thank  you  for  ourselves,  and,  as  the  guardians  of  the 
temporal  interests  of  the  Church,  we  thank  you  in  her  name 
for  your  kindly  relief  in  removing  the  heavy  pecuniary  respon- 
sibilities under  which  she  labors.  And  in  accepting  your  con- 
tribution, we  cannot  but  admire  the  generous  self-denial  of 
which  you  have  given  evidence  by  this  disregard  of  private 
wishes  when  the  necessities  of  the  Church  have  called  upon 
your  sympathies.  We  trust  that  you  may  always  remembpr 
with  pleasure  and  an  approving  conscience  this  act  of  generous 
self-denial ;  that  you  may  continue  to  grow  more  and  more  in 
every  Christian  grace,  and  become  worthy  members  of  the 
body,  by  whatever  name  called,  of  many  of  which  He  is  the 
Head.   " 

FolloAving  these  faithful  records  of  the  planting  of  the 
Church  in  Arkansas,  the  annalist  will  place  the  biographies  of 
the  first  Bishop  and  the  first  Wardens  and  Vestry,  that  of  the 
first  Missionary  Rector  having  been  given. 

Note. — Bishop  Tolk  left  Little  Rock  March,  1839,  and  on  the  26th  of 
June.  1840,  sent  Dr.  Yeager.  first  minister  to  Christ  Church.  The  fair,  held 
December,   1842,  net  proceeds,   $1,106.50. — J.  H.  Crease. 

Note. — Rev.  James  Young  arrived  on  steamer  Governor  Morehead,  De- 
cember. 1843.  John  Robins  contracted  for  the  brick  work,  plastering,  etc. 
Geo.   S.   Morrison  conti  acted  for  carpenters'   work. — J.   H.   Crease. 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  13 

RT.  REV.  LECLXIDAS  POLK,  D.  I)., 

FIRST   MISSIONARY  BISHOP  OF  ARKANSAS  AND  THE  SOUTHWEST. 

A.  D.  1  838.  On  September  16,  1838,  the  Rev.  Leonidas 
Polk,  Rector  of  St.  Peter's  Church,  Columbia,  Tenn.,  was 
elected  missionary  bishop  of  Arkansas,  Indian  Territory,  and 
the  Southwest. 

A.  D.  1 806-1 841 .  He  was  born  in  1806,  in  North  Caro- 
lina ;  graduated  at  West  Point  Military  Academy  in  1827, 
and  was  appointed  brevet  second  lieutenant  of  artillery.  Re- 
signing- this  position,  he  entered  the  Episcopal  Theological 
Seminary  at  Alexandria,  Va.  Soon  after  his  marriage,  in 
1830,  to  Miss  Frances  Devereux,  of  Raleigh,  1ST.  C,  he  was 
ordained  deacon  and  priest  in  the  Protestant  Episcopal 
Church,  and  entered  upon  the  duties  as  assistant  to  Bishop 
Moore,  in  the  Cure  of  the  Monumental  Church  at  that  place. 
Eight  years  afterward,  December  9,  1838,  he  was  consecrated 
bis] io])  and  appointed  missionary  of  the  Southwest,  which 
included  Texas,  Indian  Territory,  Arkansas,  Louisiana, 
Mississippi,  and  Alabama — too  large  a  field,  it  seems,  for 
the  jurisdiction  of  one  man.  In  1839  he  made  his  first  visita- 
tion to  Arkansas.  Bringing  to  his  work  exalted  piety,  enthusi- 
asm and  energy  "his  labors  so  multiplied  that  he  was  com- 
pelled to  restrict  the  arena  and,  on  May  20,  18-11,  was  elected 
bishop  of  the  separate  Diocese  of  Louisiana." 

A.  D.  1839.  During  Bishop  Polk's  first  visitation  to 
Little  Rock,  in  March,  1839,  he  was  the  guest  of  Hon.  Chester 
Ashley,  who  had  previously  made  his  acquaintance,  during  a 
journey,  either  to  or  from  Xew  Haven,  Conn.,  where  young 
"William  Ashley  matriculated  at  Yale  College.  Mrs.  Chester 
Ashley  on  that  occasion  had  emphasized  the  fact  to  him  that 


14  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

all  the  prominent  Christian  denominations  were  represented 
in  Little  Rock  except  the  Episcopalian.  On  this,  his  first 
official  visit  to  the  diocese,  Bishop  Polk  was  also  entertained 
at  the  homes  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jared  Newton  Causine  and  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  John  II.  Crease.  Besides  these,  there  were  but  few 
families  familiar  with  the  Prayer  Book  at  that  time,  and 
these  were  the  families  of  Mr.  Lambert  Reardon,  Mr.  1).  W. 
Gallowav,  Mr.  Luke  E.  Barber,  Senator  William  S.  Fulton 
(former  territorial  governor),  Judge  Daniel  Ringo,  Hon. 
Frederick  W.  Trapnall,  Mr.  John  Wassell,  Mr.  Abner  S. 
Washburn,  and  Mr.  Nicholas  Peay.  The  Presbyterians 
kindly  granted  the  use  of  their  Church  for  Bishop  Polk's  first 
service.  This  was  on  Main  street,  near  the  corner  of  Cherry 
(now  Second),  and,  as  there  was  no  vestry  room,  the  bishop 
robed  at  the  residence  of  his  host,  Mr.  Causine,  on  the  corner 
of  Main  and  Mulberry  (Third  street),  and  walked  along  the 
square  in  his  official  vestments  to  the  Church.  This  occasioned 
open-mouthed  speculation  on  the  part  of  the  uninitiated  vil- 
lagers and  may  have  helped  to  collect  the  bishop's  first 
audience.  He  afterwards  gathered  together  the  little  band 
of  Episcopalians  and  organized  a  parish  with  the  following 
gentlemen  as  wardens  and  vestrymen:* 

John  H.  Crease,  Senior  Warden. 

Luke  E.  Barber,  Junior  Warden. 

Lambert  Reardon. 

Charles  Rapley. 

John  Hutt. 

J.  P.  Norman. 

John  Adamson. 


*It  was  the  desire  of  the  annalist  to  give  brief  biographies  of  each  of 
these  gentlemen,  hut  in  four  instances,  after  much  correspondence,  failed  to 
procure  the  necessary   information. 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  15 

Lambert  J.  Reardon. 
F.  W.  Trapnall. 
D.  Butler. 
John  Wassell. 
William  Prather. 

Bishop  Polk  selected  the  site  for  the  Church  building  on 
the  southeast  corner  of  Orange  (Fifth)  and  Scott  streets,  and 
donated  nine  hundred  ($900)  dollars  for  the  purchase  of  the 
lots,  the  deed  to  which  is  here  copied  from  the  records  of  the 
clerk  of  the  circuit  court  and  ex-ofjicio  recorder  made  two  years 
afterwards. 

A.  D.  1841.  "'Thomas  W.  Newton  and  wife  to  John 
Wassell  and  Abner  S.  Washburn,  wardens  of  Christ  Church, 
dated  February  2,  1841.  Consideration  of  the  sum  $900 
conveying  lots  2,  3,  and  1,  block  29,  city  of  Little  Rock." 

Another  deed  is  also  recorded,  eight  years  later,  for  an 
additional  lot  on  the  south  side : 

A.  D.  1849.  "Joshua  F.  Green  and  wife  to  Daniel 
Ringo  and  John  Wassell,  wardens  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal 
Church,  dated  May  1,  1849.  Consideration  $250,  lot  1, 
block  29,  city  of  Little  Rock." 

A.  D.  1841-1863.  Tt  is  thought  that  Bishop  Polk  did 
not  visit  this  mission  after  he  was  made  bishop  of  the  Diocese 
of  Louisiana  in  1841 ;  but  his  memory  has  been  reverently 
cherished  in  the  traditions  of  those  who  survive,  and?  in  the 
history  of  this,  his  first  Episcopal  charge,  he  will  ever  figure 
as  the  beloved  Apostle  who  planted  the  Episcopal  Church  in 
Arkansas.  Later,  he  belonged  to  the  South,  where,  as  the 
bishop-general,  the  embodiment  of  Christian  chivalry,  his 
memory  has  been  perpetuated  by  a  nation.  In  1861  he  took 
up  arms  against  the  Union  ;  was  appointed  major-general  of 


16  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

the  Confederates;  occupied  Columbus,  Kj.,  September,  1861, 
and  evacuated  it  March,  1862  ;  commanded  a  division  at  the 
battle  of  Shiloh  in  April,  1862,  also  at  Murfreesboro,  Chatta- 
nooga and  Chickamauga ;  served  as  lieutenant-general  at  the 
battle  of  Stone  River  in  1863. 

A.  D.  1864.  lie  was  killed  June  15,  1861,  near  Kene- 
saw  or  Pine.  Mountain,  Ga.,  where,  as  he  was  reconnoitering 
the  enemy  in  company  with  some  comrades,  a  cannon  ball, 
well  aimed,  released  him  from  further  duty. 

"Greater  love  hath  no  man  than  this,  that  a  man  lav  down 
his  life  for  his  friends." 

HOW  BISHOP  POLK  HIED. 

THE   TRUE  STORY  OF  HIS  KILLING  NOW  FIRST   MADE   PUBLIC 

A  THRILLING  NARRATIVE  FROM  THE  PEN  OF  CAPTAIN 

DOYLE,  WHO  WITNESSED  THE  FIRING  OF  THE 

FATAL  SIIFLL GENERAL  HOWARI)'s 

TRIBUTE  TO  HIS  ANTAGONIST. 

[Copyright  by  American  Press  Association."! 

Captain  J.  E.  I'.  Doyle,  who  died  some  time  ago,  left  among  his  unpub- 
lished manuscripts  the  following  article,  which  is  of  great  historic  value,  as 
it  is  the  first  authentic  account  made  public  of  Bishop  Polk's  death. — Editor. 

The  writer  at  various  times  has  read  many  alleged 
accurate  narratives  of  the  manner  in  which  Lieutenant-Gen- 
eral  and  Bishop  Polk  met  his  death  on  Pine  Mountain,  Ga., 
June  15,  1861;  but  not  one  has  at  all  approached  the  true 
facts.  Even  Dr.  Lossing,  in  his  "Civil  War  in  America," 
volume  3.  page  378,  in  a  foot  note,  says  that  "Polk,  Johnston, 
and  Hardee  were  upon  the  summit  of  Pine  Mountain  when 
the  cannonade  commenced  reconnoitering.  Seeing  the  group, 
General  Thomas,  it  is  said,  ordered  a  shot  to  be  fired  at  them 
from  Ivnapp's  battery.  This  caused  them  to  retreat  to  a 
place  of  safety.  Polk  soon  reappeared,  when  another  shell 
was  fired  which  exploded  near  him  and  killed  him  instantly. 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  17 

The  two  shells  were  fired  by  a  young  man  named  William 
Atwell,  of  Alleghany  City,  Pa.,  attached  to  Knapp's  battery." 

I  have  generally  found  Dr.  Lossing's  accounts  of  military 
operations  that  came  under  my  personal  observations  correct, 
but  in  this  case  he  has  most  certainly  been  imposed  upon.  I 
propose  now  to  tell  the  incident  just  as  it  occurred,  and  I 
believe  its  accuracy  will  not  be  questioned  by  General  O.  O. 
Howard  or  any  other  witness  living  who  that  morning  formed 
a  group  of  which  I  was  one.  I  was  at  that  time  attached  to 
the  headquarters  of  General  Howard,  then  commanding  the 
Fourth  Corps.  On  the  night  of  the  14th  the  corps  bivouacked 
about  two  miles  north  of  the  mountain,  with  General  Stanley's 
division  under  orders  to  lead  the  advance  on  the  morrow. 
About  sunrise  General  Howard,  with  his  staff,  rode  to  the 
front.  We  found  that  Stanley  had  broken  camp,  and  his 
command  were  waiting  on  the  road  with  stacked  arms  for 
orders  to  advance.  When  we  joined  General  Stanley  and 
his  staff  at  the  extreme  front,  after  the  usual  exchange  of 
morning  salutations  between  the  two  generals,  Stanley 
remarked  to  General  Howard  : 

"General,  direct  your  glass  to  that  mountain" — pointing 
with  his  hand  to  its  summit — "and  see  if  you  can  make  out 
that  group.      I  think  there  is  a  woman  in  the  party." 

We  all  whipped  out  our  glasses  in  a  moment  and  looked 
at  the  point  indicated.  Sure  enough  there  was  a  group  of 
about  twenty  in  full  view.  In  the  fore  were  three  persons 
standing  up,  the  one  in  the  center  being  dressed  in  what 
appeared  to  be  a  long  dressing  gown,  and  behind  a  number 
of  men  apparently  seated.  After  a  careful  survey  through 
his  glass  General  Howard  said  :  "It  does  look  like  a  woman, 
General.  I  think  probably  it  is  Bishop  Polk.  He  is  in  the 
habit  of  wearing  a  morning  gown  sometimes.  They  are 
evidently  there  to  reconnoiter." 

"Well,  suppose  we  give  the  bishop  a  shot  or  two  before 
Ave  advance,"  said  General  Dave  Stanley,  "just  to  disturb  his 
morning  meditations." 

General  Howard  interposed  no  objections.  Stanley  then 
turned    to    Captain    Sampson,    his    chief    of    artillery,    and 


18  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

remarked,  "Sampson,  suppose  you  order  up  a  section,  unlim- 
ber  and  stir  up  the  bishop  !" 

Away  rode  Sampson.  At  that  time  I  sat  on  my  horse 
between  General  Howard  and  Captain  Leonard,  his  chief 
signal  officer,  on  the  right  of  our  party.  The  Captain,  Captain 
Howgate,  Captain  Taylor,  Captain  Messenger  and  other  signal 
officers  during  the  winter  previous,  while  we  lay  in  garrison  at 
Chattanooga,  had  interpreted  the  whole  signal  cipher  code  of 
the  Confederates,  and  during  the  entire  Atlanta  campaign  all 
dispatches  signaled  over  the  mountains  were  almost  instantly 
translated  by  the  Union  signal  corps.  Presently  Sampson 
arrived  with  two  field  pieces  of  some  Indiana  battery,  I 
believe,  under  a  lieutenant.  One  gun  was  placed  in  position 
on  the  right  of  Signal  Officer  Leonard,  and  about  twelve  feet 
distant.  The  lieutenant,  after  the  gun  was  loaded,  took  the 
elevations,  the  gun  was  fired  and  the  shell  exploded,  as  far  as 
we  could  tell  by  our  field  glasses,  a  little  to  the  rear,  over  and 
on  the  right  of  the  group  on  the  mountain.  When  the  gun 
was  reloaded  Sampson  threw  himself  from  the  saddle  of  his 
horse,  whose  flanks  touched  those  of  Captain  Leonard's  horse, 
and  rushing  to  the  gun  remarked : 

"Let  me  sight  her,  lieutenant,  I  think  I  can  do  better  than 
that." 

Down  on  his  knees  he  fell,  sighted  the  gun,  it  was  dis- 
charged, and  as  the  shell  burst  on  the  mountain  we  noticed  a 
sudden  scattering  of  the  group.  The  gun  had  been  recharged 
and  Sampson  was  on  his  knees  sighting  it  for  a  third  messen- 
ger of  death,  when  Signal  Officer  Leonard  exclaimed:  "That 
shot  killed  General  Polk!" 

"What !"  exclaimed  several.     "Bishop  Polk  killed  ?" 

"Yes,"  was  Leonard's  answer  ;  "they  are  signaling  it  over 
the  mountains." 

"What's  that  ?"  exclaimed  Sampson,  still  on  his  knees 
sighting  the  gun. 

Captain  Leonard  told  him  the  news. 

For  a  moment  Sampson's  head  dropped  forward  and  his 
hands  rested  on  the  breech  of  the  piece.  Then  looking  up 
he  remarked  :       "Thank  God !       Thev  killed  my  brother  the 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  19 

other  day — only  a  lieutenant.        I  have  killed  a  lieutenant- 
general." 

The  third  shot  was  not  fired,  Sampson  rising  and 
remounting  his  horse.  All  of  our  party  were  visibly  atf'ected 
by  the  incident,  no  one  more  so  than  General  Howard,  who, 
after  recovering  from  the  effects  of  the  news,  solemnly 
remarked :  "Bishop  Polk  killed !  Then  we  have  killed  a 
Christian  gentleman." 

Shortly  after  the  signal  officer  reported  that  the  enemy 
was  evacuating  the  mountain,  and  an  advance  was  ordered. 
I  went  up  the  mountain  with  the  first  troops  to  the  spot  where 
the  Confederate  group  had  been  stationed,  and  there  found  a 
fallen  tree,  about  thirty  feet  long,  before  which  Bishop  Polk 
and  his  associates  had  stood,  and  upon  which  their  staff  officers 
had  been  seated.  On  the  fallen  timber  I  found  what  colored 
guides  told  us  was  the  blood  of  General  Polk. 

Thus  did  General  Polk  fall  at  Pine  Mountain.  Neither 
Thomas  nor  Sherman  was  near  us  at  the  time,  as  they  did  not 
reach  the  front  until  later. 

J.  E.  P.  DOYLE. 

LIXEAGE. 

A.  D.  1777-1659.  Bight  Rev.  Leonidas  Polk,  D.  D., 
was  the  seventh  son  of  Lieutenant-Colonel  William  Polk,  of 
Mecklenburg  County,  X.  C,  and  Sarah  Hawkins,  his  second 
wife,  who  was  a  daughter  of  Colonel  Philemon  Hawkins,  Jr., 
one  of  the  heroes  of  the  Revolutionary  War.  "Lieutenant- 
Colonel  William  Polk  was  with  General  Washington  at 
Brandywine  (September,  1777,  and  Germantown  October  4, 
1777)  where  he  was  wounded.  He  was  then  ordered  South  and 
was  with  General  Gates  in  the  battle  of  Camden  (August, 
1780),  and  with  General  Greene  at  Guilford  (March  15, 
1781),  and  the  hard  fought  battle  of  Eutaw  Springs  (Sep- 
tember 8,  1781),  at  which  battle  he  received  a  severe  wound, 


20  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

the  effects  of  which  lie  carried  to  his  grave."1  Grandson  of 
Thomas  Polk,  Sr.,  and  Susan  Spratt,  his  wife.  Thos.  Polk 
was  a  signer  of  the  Mecklenburg  Declaration  of  Independence, 
declared  at  Charlotte  May  20,  1775,  and  colonel  of  the  second 
battalion  of  minute  men  in  1775,  and  afterwards  colonel  of 
the  Fourth  Regiment  of  the  Continental  Army  in  177G  ;  great 
grandson  of  William  Polk  and  Priscilla  Roberts,  his  wife; 
great  great  grandson  of  John  Polk  and  Joanna  Knox,  his 
wife;  great  great  great  grandson  of  Robert  Pollock  (the 
original  name)  and  Magdalen  Tasker,  his  wife  (widow  of 
Colonel  Porter,  Chancellor  of  Ireland),  who  emigrated  to 
Maryland,  United  States,  in  1659;  and  great  great  great 
great  grandson  of  John  Pollock,  of  Lanarkshire,  Scotland, 
situated  not  far  from  the  Cathedral  City  of  Glasgow. 

The  children  of  Bishop  Polk  and  Frances  Devereux,  his 
wife,  were : 

Alexander  Hamilton,  deceased. 

Frances  Devereux  (Polk)  Skipwith  (Mrs.  P.  IT.  Skip- 
with),  of  Oxford,  Miss. 

Katherine  (Polk)  Gale  (Mrs.  William  D.  Gale),  of 
Nashville,  Tenn. 

Sarah  Hawkins  (Polk)  Blake  (Mrs.  Francis  D.  Blake), 
of  New  Orleans,  La. 

Susan  Rayner  (Polk)  Jones  (Mrs.  Joseph  Jones),  of 
Columbia,  Tenn. 

Elizabeth  Devereux  (Polk)  Huger  (Mrs.  Wm.  H. 
Huger),  of  New  Orleans,  La. 

Dr.  William  M.  Polk,  who  married  Miss  Ida  Lyon,  New 
York  City. 

Rebecca  Lucia  (Polk)  Chapman  (Mrs.  Edward  Chap- 
man), of  Chestnut  Hill  Seminary,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 


1.    See  Wheeler's  History  of  North  Carolina. 


ST.  JOHNS  CHURCH,  ASHWOOD.  TENNESSEE. 


JOHN  H.  CREASE, 

FIRST    SENIOR  WARDEN. 


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A  numerous  posterity  are  descendants  of  these  worthy 
ancestors.2 

As  Bishop  Polk's  first  communication  relating  to  the 
Church  in  Arkansas  was  addressed  to  Mr.  John  H.  Crease, 
who  became  Senior  Warden,  the  annalist  places  his  biography 
in  the  first  place  among  those  of  the  laity. 


JOHN  H.  CREASE, 

FIRST  SENIOR  WARDEN  OF  CHRIST  CHURCH,  LITTLE  ROCK. 

A.  D.  1780-1789.  In  Bishop  Meade's  interesting  work, 
"Old  Churches,  Ministers  and  Families  of  Virginia,"  the 
reader  is  especially  attracted  to  the  account  of  the  Church  at 
Alexandria,  Va.,  where,  in  1780,  the  Rev.  David  Griffith 
officiated.  Among  his  congregation  was  George  Washington, 
who,  though  "having  just  been  engaged  in  the  erection  of 
Mount  Vernon  Church,  which  was  finished  the  same  year  and 
in  which  he  had  a  pew,  gives  the  highest  price  for  one  in 
Christ  Church,  Alexandria,  Fairfax  Parish.  This  pew  was 
occupied  by  him  and  his  family  during  his  life,  and  has  been 
by  some  of  his  name  and  family  ever  since."  In  the  list  of 
Vestrymen  of  this  parish  of  Fairfax  in  17S9  (George  Taylor 
and  Edmund  J.  Lee  being  named  as  Church  Wardens),  occur 
the  names  of  John  H.  Crease  and  his  brother,  Anthony 
Crease. 

A,  D.  1851-1872.  John  II.  Crease  was  called  from 
Alexandria  to  Little  Rock  to  fill  the  position  of  cashier  of  the 
State  Bank.  He  was  afterwards  made  treasurer  of  the  bank, 
and  served  in  that  capacity  from  1851  to  1855  and  from  1856 


2.  For  account  of  Bishop  Tolk's  ancestors,  see  American  Archives,  vol. 
11  fourth  series,  pages  55-858,  May  20-31,  1775 :  and  vol.  1.  fifth  series, 
pages   11.   489,    1343. 

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22  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

to  1859.  He  came  in  advance  of  his  family,  a  wife  and  six 
children,  in  1839,  and  took  up  his  residence  in  the  State  Bank 
building,  corner  of  Markham  and  Center  streets,  which  had 
been  arranged  with  a  suit  of  living  rooms  with  a  view  to  his 
occupation.  Mr.  Crease  was  a  man  of  slight  stature,  with 
nervous,  energetic  action,  cheerful,  affable  and  courteous  to  all. 
In  character  he  was  inflexibly  honest,  almost  to  stern  exact- 
ness, incapable  of  deceit  or  treachery.  His  rigid  sense  of 
justice  cost  him  his  place  twice  in  his  life,  but  with  him  "a 
good  name  was  rather  to  be  chosen  than  great  riches,"  and  he 
carried  one  unspotted  to  his  grave.  He  and  his  wife  were 
earnest  and  devoted  Church  people.  John  H.  Crease  and 
Luke  E.  Barber  were  Wardens  of  the  first  Episcopal  Church. 
The  new  building  was  consecrated  by  Bishop  Otey  in  1842. 
Mrs.  Crease's  maiden  name  was  Jane  Newton.  In  West- 
moreland County,  Va.,  the  Newton  family  was  one  of  note 
and  the  name  occurs  frequently  on  the  Vestry  list  of  the 
Church.  At  "Wilmington,"  the  family  seat  of  the  Newtons, 
an  inscription  on  a  grave  arrests  attention.  It  is  this : 
"Beneath  this  stone  are  deposited  the  remains  of  Mrs.  Sarah 
Newton,  daughter  of  George  Eskridge,  and  late  wife  of  Cap- 
tain Willowby  Newton,  of  Westmoreland  County,  who,  after 
having  justly  established  the  character  of  a  dutiful  child, 
a  faithful  friend,  an  affectionate  mother  and  sincere  Chris- 
tian, departed  this  life  on  the  2d  of  September,  1753,  in  the 
forty-sixth  year  of  her  age."  This  was  an  ancestress  of  Mrs. 
Crease,  who  perpetuated  her  virtues.  Mrs.  Crease  died  on 
Good  Friday,  March,  1872.  As  she  was  passing  away,  she 
turned  to  her  husband  and  said,  "We  have  journeyed  long 
together,"  to  which  he  replied,  "I  shall  not  be  long  in  follow- 
ing you."  She  was  buried  on  Easter  Sunday  by  Rt.  Rev. 
H.  N.  Pierce.       The  chancel  had  been  beautifully  decorated 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST   CHURCH    PARISH.  23 

with  flowers  for  the  Easter  service.  These  were  draped  with 
black  crepe  for  the  funeral,  which  was  attended  by  a  large 
ccncourse  of  relatives  and  friends.  Her  husband  did  not  long 
survive.  He  died  nine  months  later  in  the  following  Decem- 
ber of  the  same  year.  They  were  both  buried  from  the 
Church  they  had  helped  to  build  and  sleep  together  in  Mount 
Holly  Cemetery,  having  left  a  numerous  posterity. 

The  children  of  John  H.  and  Jane  Newton  Crease  are : 

1.  Jane  Crease.  Married  first  Rev.  George  W.  kelson, 
of  Virginia.  Children:  George  W.  Jr.,  Jane  Crease,  and 
Thomas  Crease  Nelson.  After  his  death  she  married  Philip 
Nelson.  Children :  Frank,  William,  and  Caroline  Peyton 
Nelson.  George  W.  Nelson,  now  Episcopal  minister  of 
Warrenton,  Va.,  married  Mary  Nelson  Scollay,  of  Virginia. 
Children:  Page,  Thomas  C,  Harry  Lee,  George  W., 
Philip,  Charlotte,  Carrie  P.,  Scollay,  and  Mary  Nelson. 
Page  Nelson  married  Hugh  Nelson,  of  Virginia.  Children : 
Nancy  and  Hugh.  Thomas  Nelson  married  Miss  Withers, 
of  Virginia.  The  rest  unmarried.  Jane  Crease  Nelson, 
unmarried ;  principal  of  Episcopal  Female  Seminary,  of 
Chatham,  Va.  Thomas  Crease  Nelson,  dead.  Frank  Nel- 
son married  Miss  Withers,  of  Virginia.  Children:  Page, 
Blanche,  Frank,  and  Caroline.  William  Nelson,  M.  D.,  of 
Danville,  Va.,  married  Miss  Moorehead,  of  North  Carolina; 
one  child,  William.     Caroline  Nelson,  dead. 

2.  Louisa  Crease.  Married  Thomas  Johnson,  Chief 
Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Arkansas  from  1836  to  1844, 
eight  years.  Children:  Anthony,  John  and  Thomas  (twins), 
and  Benjamin  Johnson. 

3.  Anthony  Crease.     Died  unmarried. 

4.  Mary  Crease.  Married  George  C.  Watkins,  Chief 
Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Arkansas  from  1844  to  1852, 


24  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

eight  years,  when  he  resigned  office  and  resumed  the  practice 
of  law.  Their  children  are  (1)  Anderson  Watkins,  killed  in 
Civil  War;  (2)  Dr.  Claiborne  Watkins,  who  married  Mildred 
Farley,  and  had  Annie,  Mary,  Mildred,  and  Gertrude  Wat- 
kins;  (3)  Walton  Watkins,  who  married  Sue  Trezevant,  and 
had  Anderson  and  Heywavd  Watkins;  (4)  Louisa  Watkins, 
who  married  Win.  Fulton  Wright,  and  had  Moorhead,  May, 
Watkins  Fulton,  and  Louise  Wright ;  May  Wright  married 
S.  F.  Hoge,  of  Kentucky.  They  have  three  children,  Virginia 
Briggs,  Fulton  Wright,  and  Charles  Eugene  Hoge.  (5) 
Mary  Watkins  who  died  in  the  bloom  of  early  womanhood 
unmarried,  a  beautiful  and  accomplished  member  of  society. 

5.  Caroline  Crease.  Married  Dr.  Craven  Peyton,  a 
distinguished  and  beloved  physician  of  Little  Rock,  who 
died  in  1872.  His  widow  still  survives,  and,  as  a 
sincere  and  j)ious  Christian,  has  wielded  a  silent,  but  power- 
ful influence  in  the  Church  of  which  she  is  a  beloved  member. 
The  mausoleum  in  Mount  Holly  Cemetery,  the  most  promi- 
nent one  there,  which  she  caused  to  be  erected  to  the  memory 
of  her  idolized  husband,  is  but  one  evidence  of  her  fidelity 
as  a  wife  and  widow.  On  the  massive  marble  pedestal,  a  life- 
size  marble  bust  of  the  deceased  arrests  the  attention  of  all 
visitors. 

0.      Henry  Crease.     Died  unmarried. 

7.  Sophia,  Crease.  Unmarried.  Secretary  of  the 
Board  of  Guardians  of  "The  Old  Ladies'  Home." 

8.  Susan  Crease.  Married  Gordon  N".  Peay,  Captain 
of  Sixth  Arkansas  Regiment,  C.  S.  A.,  afterwards  colonel,  and 
mayor  of  Little  Rock  before  the  act  of  secession,  and  for  many 
years  clerk  of  Pulaski  Chancery  Court.  He  died  in  1876. 
His  widow  survives  and  has  been  twice  president  of  "The 
Ladies  Aid  Society"  of  Christ  Church.       There  is  a  window 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  25 

on  the  north  side  of  the  new  Church  placed  by  his  widow  "in 
loving'  memory  of  Gordon  X.  Peay."  There  are  two  figures, 
Christ  and  St.  John,  holding  a  chalice  with  a  serpent  in  it. 
The  cup  with  the  serpent  is  designed  to  illustrate  the  sacred 
legend  that  poison  was  once  offered  to  Christ  in  a  cup,  from 
which  He  expelled  the  venom  in  the  form  of  a  serpent,  by  mak- 
ing the  sign  of  the  cross.  The  children  of  Colonel  Gordon  X. 
Peay  and  Susan  Crease,  his  wife,  were :  Jane  (Mrs.  W.  W. 
Morrison),  Mary  (Mrs.  W.  Booker  Worthen),  John, 
deceased,  Sue,  deceased,  Nicholas,  married  Leicester  Horni- 
brook,  Elizabeth  (Mrs.  Antoine  Bohlinger),  Gordon  Neil, 
married  Zilla  Cole,  and  Caroline. 

9.  Laura  Crease.  Married  Major  John  W.  Lewis,  of 
Virginia.  Their  children  are  Laura  Lewis  (Mrs.  Tighlman 
Howard  Bunch),  and  Sue  Peay  Lewis,  unmarried.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Bunch  have  one  son,  T.  II.  Bunch,  Jr. 

A.  D.  1  897.  Miss  Sophia  Crease  has  been  a  powerful 
factor  in  most  of  the  philanthropic  work  of  the  parish.  In 
the  Arkansas  Gazette  of  date  May  2,  1897,  appeared,  as 
quoted  here,  a  brief  sketch  of  the  "Jane  Kellogg  Home,"  more 
frequently  called  "The  Old  Ladies'  Home,"  which  is  under 
the  supervision  of  a  Board  of  Gentlemen  Managers  and  Lady 
Guardians,  representing  every  Christian  denomination  in  the 
city,  of  which  board  Miss  Crease  is  the  secretary. 

JANE  KELLOGG  HOME. 

AX     IMSTITUTIOX     OF     LOVE     AND     MERCY REPORT     OF     MISS 

CREASE,  THE  SECRETARY. 

The  following  very  interesting  annual  report  was  filed  on 
Friday  last  by  Miss  Sophia  Crease,  secretary  of  the  Board  of 
Guardians: 


26  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

To  the  Board  of  Managers  and  Lady  Guardians: 

I  must  confess  to  a  feeling  of  timidity,  or,  I  should  say, 
a  full  sense  of  incapacity,  in  appearing  before  you  in  the  role 
of  reporter.  I  am  most  assuredly  cognizant  of  the  "still 
small  voice,"  which  tells  of  more  good  I  might  have  done,  than 
the  little  amount  accomplished,  had  it  not  been  for  the  well- 
known  stumbling  block,  "pleasure  before  duty."  The  big 
"I"  and  little  "you"  fighting  for  the  mastery  resulting,  as  full 
many  a  time  and  oft  it  does  to  vulnerable  humanity,  in  favor 
of  the  big  I. 

Craving  your  leniency  for  the  rather  egotistical  prelude 
to  this  report,  I  will  say :  "The  Jane  Kellogg  Home"  is  now 
in  its  fifteenth  year.  From  a  venture  cast  upon  the  waves 
of  public  opinion  and  Little  Rock  charity  in  the  year  1883,  it 
has  grown  until  now  the  State  at  large  recognizee  ir  as  an 
institution  of  love  and  mercy,  which  a  Divine  Providence 
seems  truly  to  have  smiled  upon,  so  wonderful  has  been  its 
support.  It  is  true,  there  have  been  times  when  a  very  small 
exchequer  would  present  itself  to  your  view  to  carry  on  the 
home's  necessary  existence,  yet,  through  the  over-shadowing 
clouds,  there  has  ever  penetrated  the  sunshine  of  "help  in 
the  time  of  need,"  imbuing  the  trusting  heart  with  a  full 
sense  of  relief  in  the  Father's  watchful  care. 

The  past  year  seems  to  have  glided  onward  not  unlike  its 
predecessors.  We  have  much  to  be  thankful  for,  and  but 
little  to  complain  of.  The  health  of  the  household  has  on  an 
average  been  most  excellent,  especially  when  considering  the 
advanced  age  of  most  of  the  inmates.  There  has  been  one 
admission  into  the  home  and  one  death.  Of  course,  the  regu- 
lar monthly  report  of  the  secretary  embraces  each  month's 
happenings,  and  is  duly  inscribed  upon  the  record.  The  main- 
tenance of  the  home  during  the  year  has  been  accomplished 
pretty  much  in  the  usual  way.  The  annual  donation  week, 
which  cuts  quite  a  large  figure  in  the  running  of  the  home, 
was  well  cared  for  by  the  generous-hearted  ones  of  our  city, 
and  the  guardians  felt  very  grateful  for  the  liberal  responses 
given  to  their  appeal.      The  renting  of  rooms  in  the  building, 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  27 

donations  of  various  kinds,  with  the  very  material  help 
afforded  by  the  board  of  managers — the  institution  presents  a 
homelike  and  comfortable  condition.  The  present  matron, 
Mrs.  Emory,  has  been  with  us  for  two  years  past,  and  we  have 
no  cause  of  complaint  regarding  her  supervision  of  the  house- 
hold affairs.*  We  deem  her  faithful  in  the  discharge  of  her 
duties,  and  sympathetic  in  regard  to  the  old  ladies'  wants, 
thereby  establishing  the  peace  of  the  home. 

In  June  last  the  board  of  guardians  convened  for  its  an- 
nual election  of  officers.  Mrs.  R.  A.  Edgerton  was  duly 
elected  president,  Mrs.  James  Pollock,  first  vice  president; 
Mrs.  E.  Longley,  second  vice  president;  Miss  Crease,  secre- 
tary, and  Mrs.  E.  A.  Van  Etten,  who  has  for  so  long  and  faith- 
fully served  the  board,  re-elected  treasurer.  Our  board  has 
been  pleasantly  augmented  during  the  present  year  by  the 
board  of  managers  placing  thereon  Mrs.  Pauline  Reichardt, 
Mrs.  B.  J.  Brown,  Mrs.  D.  L.  Gray,  Mrs.  John  Moore,  Mrs. 
P.  K.  Roots,  and  Mrs.  C.  M.  Taylor.  The  board  has  ever 
been  a  most  harmonious  one,  as  certainly  it  should  be,  in  this 
work  of  charity,  and  surely  there  is  no  greater  charity  than  the 
care  of  the  old  and  helpless.  There  are  now  in  the  home 
those  who  will  very  shortly  cross  the  "silent  river,"  having 
long  since  passed  their  three  score  and  ten  years.  A  refuge 
in  the  time  of  trouble  has  the  institution  been  to  them,  and 
that  it  may  continue  to  be  a  haven  of  rest  for  the  unfortunate 
and  wayworn  pilgrims,  surely  should  be  the  wish  of  each 
Christian  heart. 

I  cannot  close  this  report  without  mention  of  the  home's 
good  and  kind  physician,  Dr.  Christian,  who,  from  its  organi- 
zation, has  been  the  ever  faithful  friend,  answering  promptly 
calls  at  all  hours,  sympathizing  and  administering  to  the  sick, 
without  money  and  without  price,  proving  indeed  the  "Good 
Samaritan"  to  the  "Jane  Kellogg  Home." 

A.  S.  CREASE. 
Secretary  Board  of  Guardian*. 


*Mrs.  Elizabeth  Uphain  Reeve  is  her  efficient  (successor. 


28  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

In  the  southeast  corner  of  the  new  Church  may  be  seen 
a  stained  glass  window,  bearing  the  inscription,  "In  loving 
memory  of  John  and  Jane  P.  Crease,"  which  represents 
Zacharias  bearing  the  child,  "who  was  to  be  the  prophet  of  the 
highest,"  to  the  temple  for  circumcision,  with  Elizabeth  ac- 
companying him.  Among  the  numerous  posterity  of  John 
and  Jane  Crease  this  custom  of  taking  the  children  to  be 
"baptized  in  Christ"  has  been  religiously  preserved,  and  the 
blessing  of  God  has  followed  them. 

LAMBERT  REARDOX,  SR. 

A.  D.  1841-1860.  Mr.  Lambert  Beardon.  Sr.}  was  a 
member  of  the  first  Vestry  of  Christ  Church.  In  May,  1841, 
he  made  the  contract  with  Messrs.  Robins  and  Wassell  for 
building  the  first  Church,  which  Mr.  Crease  desired  to  be 
named  "Christ  Church,"  after  the  Church  of  his  former  devo- 
tion in  Alexandria,  Ya.  Mr.  Reardon  was  a  man  of  large 
experience.  He  was  born  in  Virginia  and  married  Ann  Jef- 
frey, a  native  of  Wilmington,  Del.  He  eamo  to  Little  Rock 
in  1836  and  lived  with  his  family  in  1837  on  West  Markham 
street,  on  the  summit  of  a  hill,  where  his  home,  a  commodious 
brick  building,  was  seated.  A  deep  dell  or  wooded  ravine 
separated  this  hill  from  Broadway  on  the  east.  It  was  a 
favorite  walk  in  1849  for  young  people  to  descend  into  the 
valley  and  climb  to  the  opposite  eminence  for  a  visit  to  the 
widow  Reardon,  whose  fine,  intelligent  countenance  and  portly 
figure  would  have  arrested  attention  anywhere.  The  ravine 
was  filled  up  and  bridged  and  a  street  railway  track  now  lies 
across  it,  all  of  which  has  ruthlessly  shorn  the  locality  of  its 
natural  beauty  and  charm,  while  the  little  stream  at  the  bottom 
that  once  made  music  slipping  over  the  stones,  is  hushed  into 
silence  like  many  who  once  passed  over  it.       Bishop  Polk  and 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  29 

Bishop  Otey  were  entertained  by  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Reardon  at 
this  home,  whose  children  and  grand  children  were  baptized 
and  confirmed  by  those  holy  apostles.  Mr.  Iteardon  died 
November  10,  1849.  His  widow  survived  him  eleven  years 
and  died  in  1860.  The  residence  became  the  property  of 
Colonel  Gordon  N.  Peay,  whose  children  were  brought  up 
there  and  is  still  the  residence  of  his  widow.  The  children  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Lambert  Iteardon,  Sr.,  were : 

1.  Helen  Reardon  who  married  Win.  C.  Scott,  in  Mary- 
land. He  was  district  attorney  for  the  Western  District  of 
Arkansas  in  1846.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Scott  had  one  daughter, 
Blanche,  who  became  the  wife  of  Captain  Sokolski,  United 
States  Army.  She  was  the  first  person  baptized  in  the  first 
Episcopal  Church,  and  was  when  a  woman,  a  brilliant 
musician. 

2.  Lavinia  Reardon,  who  married  William  B.  Wait. 
They  had  Lambert,  William,  Herbert,  and  Charles  Edmund. 
Only  the  last  mentioned  survived  the  parents.  Charles  E. 
Wait  married  first  Miss  Leila  Beasley;  had  one  daughter, 
Fanny,  and  second,  Miss  Ilattie  Morrilton,  of  Virginia,  and 
had  one  son,  Charles  Edmund,  Jr. 

3.  Lambert  Jeffrey  Reardon  who  married  Priscilla 
Aylett  Buckner  and  had  Simeon  Buckner,  who  died  unmar- 
ried ;  Anne  Lavinia,  who  married  Patrick  Raleigh,  broker 
and  real  estate  agent,  and  had  nine  sons,  of  whom  seven  sur- 
vive— Richard,  Lambert,  Edwin,  Frederick,  Joseph,  Robert, 
and  James;  Lambert  Walter,  who  died  unmarried,  and  Lallie, 
who  married  Dr.  James  A.  Dibrell,  a  distinguished  physician 
and  surgeon  of  Little  Rock,  and  had  two  sons  who  survive 
her — John  Raleigh  and  James  Lambert, 

4.  John  E.  Reai-don  who  died  unmarried.  He  was 
for  a  long  time  bookseller  and  stationer  on  northeast  corner  of 


30  THE   ANNALS   OF   CHRIST    CHURCH     PARISH. 

Scott  and  Markham  streets.  He  was  highly  esteemed,  espe- 
cially in  musical  circles,  where  he,  with  his  guitar,  was  in 
constant  requisition. 

LAMBEKT  JEFFREY  REARDOX. 

A.  D.  1837-1847.  Lambert  Jeffrey  Reardon,  son  of 
Lambert  Reardon,  was  also  a  member  of  the  first  Vestry  of 
the  Church,  in  the  building  of  which  his  father  had  had  so 
prominent  a  position.  He  was  a  man  of  marked  ability  and 
culture,  for  a  long  while  editor  of  the  Arkansas  Banner,  and 
was  mayor  of  the  city,  1845-1847.  In  social  life  he  was  a 
man  of  elegant  manners  and  graceful  as  a  conversationalist. 
He  married  Priscilla  Aylett  Buckner,  who  was,  and  has 
always  been,  a  model  of  refinement  and  amiability.  Her 
parents  were  Captain  Simeon  Buckner,  of  Kentucky,  who 
married  his  cousin,  Nancy  Watson,  of  Virginia.  "In  1837 
( 'aptain  Simoon  Buckner  received  a  commission  from  the 
government  to  remove  the  Florida  Indians  from  Vicksburg  to 
Fort  Gibson.  He  bought  six  or  eight  steamboats  or  their 
transportation  and  finished  his  work  in  about  a  year,  making 
a  small  fortune  out  of  it.  In  the  fall  of  1837  he  removed  with 
his  family  to  Little  Rock,  where  they  remained  until  1839, 
when  he  went  to  Clark  County  and  purchased  the  Richwoods 
plantation,  near  Arkadelphia,  one  of  the  richest  of  the  State. 
His  son,  William  Perry  Buckner,  who  had  remained  at  school 
in  Kentucky,  came  to  Arkansas  in  1838  and  attended  school 
in  Springfield,  Hempstead  County,  boarding  with  ex-Governor 
Garland's  mother.  He  then  went  to  Alexandria,  Va.,  and 
while  there  attending  the  university  was  appointed  t<>  the 
navy  from  Arkansas,  and  served  on  the  Marion,  the  Bain- 
bridge,  the  Macedonian,  the  historic  ( Constitution  and  other 
ships.       He  was  the  first  midshipman  ever  appointed    from 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  31 

Arkansas.  He  went  through  the  war  a  member  of  the  Federal 
navy,  and  in  1866,  after  twenty-six  years'  active  service  in 
the  navy  of  the  United  States,  was  placed  on  the  retired  list — 
died  July  10,  1869.  Wife  and  one  son  died  soon  after;  one 
son,  William,  still  living."  Captain  Buekner,  in  his  Pacific 
cruises,  has  unconsciously  become  a  connecting  link  between 
the  Manila  of  1845  and  the  Manila  of  1898.  The  log  book 
kej3t  by  him  when  a  midshipman  supplies  an  interesting 
description,  quoted  here  from  a  copy  in  Arkansas  Democrat  of 
date  May  19,  1898: 

from  an  OLD  LOG  BOOK. 

DESCRIPTION    OF   A   NOTED   PLACE   AND   PEOPLE    BY  A   MIDSHIP- 
MAN ON  THE  CONSTITUTION PROPHECY  OF  FIFTY 

YEARS  AGO   TEAT   THE   ENSLAVED  POPULACE 
WOULD  SOMETIME  RISE  IN  REBELLION. 

[Arkansas  Democrat,  May  19,  1898.] 

The  historic  man-o'-war,  Constitution,  which  bore  an 
active  and  valiant  part  in  the  early  naval  warfare  of  our  coun- 
try, visited  the  city  Manila  over  fifty  years  ago  on  a  peaceful 
mission,  in  command  of  Captain  John  Percival.  The  log  of 
its  Pacific  cruise  records  that  the  ship  entered  Manila  Bay 
September  12,  1845,  and  that  the  Spanish  captain  of  the  port 
visited  the  ship,  also  a  French  officer  from  the  French  frigate 
Sabine ;  saluted  the  Spanish  flag  with  twenty-one  guns,  which 
was  returned  by  the  fort  on  shore. 

The  log  book  of  that  cruise  was  kept  by  Midshipman 
W.  P.  Bnckner,  and  is  now  a  precious  relic  in  the  possession 
of  Mrs.  Priscilla  A.  Reardon,  one  of  Little  Rock's  oldest  and 
most  esteemed  residents,  and  a  sister  of  Midshipman  Buekner. 

From  the  log  is  taken  the  following  interesting  descrip- 
tion of  the  bay  and  city  of  Manila,  which  will  be  especially 
interesting  now  on  account  of  the  great  victory  won  there  but 
recently  by  American  arms : 


32  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

"The  city  of  Manila  is  situated  on  the  southwest  side  of 
the  island  of  Luzon  or  Luconia.  It  is  said  to  contain  about 
90,000  inhabitants,  most  of  whom  are  Indians  and  half-breeds. 
The  city  is  built  on  an  extensive  flat  and  is  surrounded  by  rice 
fields.  The  European  city  is  on  the  south  side  of  the  river, 
and  is  walled  in  with  a  strong  wall  and  encompassed  on  every 
side  by  a  ditch  about  forty  feet  wide.  The  walls  have  many 
embrasures  already  filled  with  guns.  ]STo  doubt  many  more 
are  stored  away  in  the  arsenals.  A  river  about  200  yards 
wide  runs  through  the  town  ;  it  has  been  walled  up  on  each 
side  for  many  miles — a  beautiful  and  well  built  bridge  crosses 
the  river  about  one  mile  from  its  mouth.  The  European  city 
is  well  built  and  clean.  Its  houses  are  usually  about  two 
stories  high,  and  are  built  of  either  stone  or  brick.  The  city 
is  full  of  churches.  Some  of  them  have  a  very  old  look,  and 
one  or  two  were  truly  splendid,  or  rather  grand,  inside.  A 
stranger  would  bo  (as  I  was)  surprised  at  the  number  of 
priests  who  meet  him  in  the  streets.  'T  is  said  (and  not  much 
doubt  of  it  either)  that  they  are  the  smartest  and  most  influ- 
ential men  in  the  place.  They  certainly  are  very  polite  men, 
and  have  a  sort  of  bon-vivant  look  about  them  that  speaks  of 
something  else  but  spiritual  food.  The  town  north  of  the 
river  is  not  walled.  It  is  very  well  built  and  is  the  business 
part  of  Manila.  The  streets  are  quite  regular.  The  town 
is  cut  up  in  two  or  three  directions  by  wide  canals.  These 
canals  were  no  doubt  dug  to  facilitate  commerce,  and  also  for 
defense.  They  are  all  crossed  in  many  places  by  excellent 
si <>ne  bridges. 

''There  are  many  Chinese  in  Manila.  They  all  keep 
little  shops  or  stores  in  the  principal  streets.  The  cigar  man- 
ufactories are  well  worth  seeing.  There  are  employed  in 
Manila  under  one  roof  upwards  of  7,000  girls — it  is  a  beauti- 
ful sight — all  busy,  but  still  they  find  enough  time  to  smile 
on  a  young  stranger,  to  say  'Buenos  dias,  senor/  to  a  young- 
man,  or  'Muchas  gracias'  to  a  compliment.  Some  of  these 
girls  are  quite  beautiful,  and  speak  so  softly  that  I  for  one 
delighted  to  listen  to  their  voices.  The  Manila  cheroots  are 
nearly  as  good  as  the  Havana  segars.       Some  persons  like  them 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  33 

better.  For  my  part  I  had  rather  smoke  a  cheroot  made 
by  the  pretty  Manila  girls  than  the  Havana  made  by  African 
negroes,  though  the  Havana  may  be  the  best. 

"Manila  Bay  is  surrounded  by  high  mountains.  Many 
of  them  appear  to  be  the  craters  of  volcanoes.  Shocks  of 
earthquakes  are  sometimes  felt  in  Manila.  The  bay  is  quite 
i  pen  and  almost  entirely  free  from  dangers.  There  is  good 
anchorage  about  three  miles  from  the  town,  on  muddy  bottom. 
It  does  not  require  a  pilot  to  enter  the  bay.  Near  the  city 
are  t-.s tensive  fields  of  rice.  The  roads  are  in  fine  order  and 
the  views  pretty  and  pleasant.  Part  of  the  Indian  town  is 
built  of  bamboo.  The  Indians  appear  to  be  a  very  ingen- 
ious race.  They  weave  a  kind  of  cloth  from  the  fibers  of 
the  pineapple  which  is  much  finer  than  any  silk.  Everyone 
in  Manila  is  a  Christian.  The  Spaniards  establish  their 
religion  as  they  conquer.  The  sword  is  of  great  use  to  some 
nations,  for  it  is  only  by  the  sword  that  they  can  be  civilized. 
The  sword  has  converted  more  nations  to  a  religion  than 
persuasion.  But  still,  though  these  people  have  been  con- 
verted by  force,  anyone  can  see  the  improvement  of  their 
country.  'T  is  said  the  population  has  doubled  itself  several 
limes  since  the  conquest.  I  have  heard  a  great  many  per- 
sons speak  against  the  Catholics  for  their  intrigues  with  sav- 
age nations,  but  in  this  instance  I  must  say  that,  though  they 
have  enslaved  the  country,  yet  they  have  enriched  it.  I 
believe  that  this  slavery  of  the  people  will  break  forth  one  day 
so  that  they  will  enjoy  a  free  and  perfect  liberty,  and  by  being 
civilized  they  will  knowT  how  to  appreciate  it.  There  are  in 
Manila  about  3,000  troops,  mostly  natives.  Manila  is  ex- 
tremely well  fortified  and  could  make  a  stout  defense  if  stout 
hearts  held  it.  But  the  Spaniards  now  have  a  saying  that  it 
takes  a  Spaniard  to  build,  a  Frenchman  to  take,  and  an  Eng- 
lishman to  keep  their  forts.  The  ditch  is  nearly  filled  up 
on  the  south  side  of  the  town.  The  ruins  of  the  wall  would 
enable  a  storming  party  to  cross  it.  'T  is  said,  though,  that 
a  golden  key  would  unlock  all  the  gates  of  Manila.  There 
are  two  long  moles  built  out  into  the  sea  ;  on  one  of  them  is  a 
lighthouse ;  the  other  has  a  battery  of  long  brass  guns.       Of 


34  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

an  evening  it  is  a  pretty  sight  on  the  paphao.  All  the  pretty 
Spanish  girls  can  he  seen  about  sundown  there  in  their 
valantes.  The  band  of  the  garrison  (a  splendid  one)  usually 
attends;  in  fact,  from  4  p.  m.  till  10  at  night  is  the  stirring- 
time  of  day,  when  everybody  wishes  to  see  and  be  seen. 

"Manila  city  was  founded  in  1640.  About  fifteen 
miles  above  the  city  is  a  lake  thirty  miles  across.  It  is  sur- 
rounded by  high  mountains  and  bordered  with  Indian  villages. 
The  dress  of  the  Indian  girls  is  about  half  savage,  half  civi- 
lized. The  skirts  are  worn  loose  from  the  body,  and  some- 
times rather  low  for  our  modest  notions.  The  men  dress 
much  like  the  Europeans.  They  wear  hats,  while  the  women 
never  wear  anything  more  than  a  handkerchief  or  veil  over 
their  heads.  The  island  of  Luzon  is  about  360  miles  long. 
It  is  a  rich  and  fertile  island,  producing  for  exportation  to- 
bacco, segars,  hemp,  sugar  and  rice." 

Simeon  Buckner,  of  Kentucky,  native  of  Virginia,  father 
of  Captain  Buckner,  U.  S.  ]ST.,  married  Miss  Nancy  Watson, 
of  Virginia,  and  had  three  children: 

1.  PriscUla  Aylett  who  married  Lambert  Jeffrey 
Reardon. 

2.  Wm.  Perry  B itchier,  U.  S.  1ST.,  who  married  Miss 
Mary  Mezzick,  of  Maryland.  Their  children  were  Mezzick 
Aylett,  Joseph,  and  William ;  the  last  only  survives. 

3.  Josephine  Preston  Buckner,  who  married  Robert 
Clements  and  had  one  daughter,  Irene  Rebecca,  who  survived 
the  mother  but  three  months. 

The  next  most  distinguished  member  of  this  band  of 
Christian  pioneers  was 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 


JAEED  NEWTOE  CAUSINE, 

who  was  one  of  the  most  pious  and  devoted  churchmen  on  the 
list  of  members  of  Christ  Church.  He  was  a  native  of 
Leonardtown,  St.  Mary  County,  Md.,  and  there  married 
Eleanor  Douglas  Marshall,  and  afterwards  moved  to  Arkan- 
sas. They  had  fifteen  children,  of  whom  five  only  reached 
maturity,  viz :  John,  Jane  P.,  William,  and  Mary  Susan 
Causihe. 

■John  Causinc,  a  lawyer,  on  his  return  to  Maryland,  after 
a  visit  to  his  family  at  Little  Rock,  died  at  Cairo,  111.,  from 
a  stroke  of  apoplexy.  He  was  a  man  of  brilliant  attainments 
and  the  pride  of  his  widowed  mother.  The  news  of  his 
death  put  a  period  to  her  life.  The  remains  were  brought 
back  to  Little  Rock  and  mother  and  son  were  buried  in  one 
grave  at  Mount  Holly  Cemetery.     He  was  never  married. 

Jane  P.  Causinc  married  at  Leonardtown,  Md.,  Luke  E. 
Barber,  of  Charles  County,  Md. 

William  Causine  died  unmarried. 

Mary  Susan  Causinc  married  Robert  Clements  in  1862, 
and  had  four  children,  of  whom  two  survive,  John  Causine 
Clements  and  Jenny  Barber  Clements. 

A.  D.  1  836.  Mr.  Jared  J^ewton  Causine  and  Mr.  Luke 
E.  Barber  came  with  their  families  to  Arkansas  in  1836,  the 
year  of  its  admission  into  the  Union,  and  settled  on  a  farm 
in  Jefferson  County,  near  Pine  Bluff.  This  farm  was  after- 
wards sold  to  Mr.  G.  M.  D.  Cantrell,  a  banker  of  Nashville, 
Tenn.,  and  brother  of  Dr.  W.  A.  Cantrell,  of  Little  Rock. 

A.  D.  1838-1886.  Luke  E.  Barber,  the  son-in-law  of 
Mr.  Causine,  had  practiced  law  in  Maryland,  was  a  member 
of  the  Arkansas  State  Legislature  from  Jefferson  County  in 


36  THE  ANNALS  OF  CHRIST  CHURCH  PARISH. 

1838,  and  moved  to  Little  Rock  in  1841,  bringing  a  number 
of  slaves  with  him.  In  1845  he  was  appointed  clerk  of  the 
Supreme  Court  of  Arkansas,  which  position  he  held  until  his 
death  (with  the  exception  of  one  interval,  when  X.  W.  Cox 
held  the  office),  on  June  13,  1886,  being  80  years  of  age.  He 
was  a  Mason  of  high  degree,  and  was  buried  from  Christ 
Church  Chapel  by  the  Order  of  Knights  Templars.  Dr.  T.  C. 
Tupper,  Rector  of  Christ  Church,  who  had  preached  his  fare- 
well sermon  to  the  congregation  from  the  text  John  xv.  12 : 
"Love  one  another,"  had  left  for  Leavenworth,  Kan.,  his  new 
point  of  service.  He  was  telegraphed  to  return  and  officiated 
at  the  burial.  He,  also  a  Mason,  entered  the  Church,  leading 
the  funeral  procession  with  a  crosier  or  staff  of  Masonic  im- 
port. On  his  breast  was  a  large  scarlet  Maltese  cross  and  an 
under  robe  of  azure  was  just  visible  down  the  front  line  of 
his  white  surplice.  The  Knights  Templars,  the  members  of 
the  Supreme  Court,  and  the  Church  Vestry  supplied  pall 
bearers  from  their  several  orders.  After  the  pall,  followed  a 
body  of  Knights  Templars  and  Masons,  then  the  family,  then 
the  members  of  the  bar,  all  of  whom  occupied  the  transepts, 
the  nave  being  filled  with  citizens.  Dr.  Tupper  made  some 
appropriate  remarks  and  the  procession  followed  the  remains 
of  this  good  man  to  his  grave.  A  window  of  stained  glass  in 
the  northwest  end  of  the  new  Church,  representing  the  Good 
Samaritan,  friend  to  the  man  who  fell  among  thieves,  was. 
placed  to  his  memory  by  his  widow.  Nothing  could  more 
faithfully  illustrate  his  character. 

A.  D.  1  897.  Mrs.  Jane  P.  Barber,  his  widow,  survived 
him  eleven  years.  She  had  always  been  the  spiritual  prop 
and  stay  of  her  family.  Trained  in  piety  from  childhood, 
she  had  flourished  under  the  approving  smile  of  her  Maker — 
"first  the  blade,  then  the  ear,  and  after  that  the  full  corn  in 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  37 

the  ear,"' — and  when  the  ange]  Death  thrust  in  his  sickle, 
the  harvest  was  ripe.  A  childless  wife,  she  was  yet  a  "Mother 
in  Israel"  to  the  little  ones  of  the  flock.  Sunday  after  Sun- 
day, for  years,  she  was  the  only  female  teacher  in  the  Sunday 
school;  godmother  to  a  score  of  children,  and  the  adopted 
mother  of  one,  Mott  Webb,  whose  tragic  murder  at  the  age  of 
1 6,  almost  killed  her  with  grief.  The  silver  cross  which 
adorned  the  chancel  of  the  old  Church  was  the  memorial  of 
the  unfortunate  youth.  Her  slight  figure  and  placid  face, 
which  became  more  and  more  serene  as  deafness  gradually 
closed  the  outward  portals  of  life,  and  shut  up  her  thoughts 
with  the  triune  God,  never  failed  to  be  seen  in  her  pew,  until 
actual  weakness  prevented,  although  she  could  not  hear  the 
preacher's  voice  or  a  sound  of  the  organ  near  her.  She  was  a 
mistress  such  as  all  slaves  would  delight  to  serve,  who  rejoiced 
with  them  when  they  were  manumitted.  She  was  a  friend, 
whom  it  is  a  privilege  to  bemoan.  She  was  a  marvel  of  gen- 
tleness in  her  family  intercourse,  in  which  her  slightest  wish 
was  law.  She  died  December  '2,  1897,  and  was  buried  from 
the  new  Church  by  the  Rector,  Rev.  John  Gass,  in  Mount 
Holly  Cemetery,  aged  83  years,  nearly  the  whole  of  which 
had  been  spent  in  the  service  of  God  and  the  Church.  She 
left  request  that  her  name  should  never  be  taken  off  the  roll 
of  the  Ladies'  Aid  Society,  to  which  she  bequeathed  a  fund  for 
the  annual  dues. 

A.  D.  1833-1891.  Mrs.  Sarah  Ann  Ally,  a  cherished 
friend  of  Mrs.  Barber,  and  a  devout  member  of  the  Church 
in  Little  Rock,  was  confirmed  in  St.  Paul's  Chapel,  Xashville, 
Tenn.,  by  Rt.  Rev.  James  IT.  Otey,  on  May  12,  1850,  just 
after  her  marriage.  She  was  the  daughter  of  John  and 
Mary  Woodhead,  and  was  born  in  the  city  of  New  York, 
August  18,  18.33.     The  family  moved  to  Xew  Orleans,  La., 

—4  — 


38  THE   ANNALS   OF   CHRIST   CHURCH   PARISH. 

by  sea;  in  1839 ;  left  New  Orleans  in  1841,  and  went  to 
Nashville,  Tenn.,  where  the  father  died  in  1819.  Sarah  Ann 
Woodhead  was  married  at  Nashville,  Tenn.,  to  R.  C.  Ally  in 
1850.  They  had  eight  children.  Granville  and  Maggie,  the 
two  elder,  were  born  in  Nashville,  Tenn.,  the  other  six  are 
natives  of  Little  Rock.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ally  and  the  widow 
Woodhead  came  to  Little  Rock  in  1860,  where  the  mother 
died  in  1862.  Mrs.  Ally  has  been  heard  to  say  that  the  first 
persons  to  call  on  her  in  Little  Rock  were  Mrs.  Jane  Barber, 
Mrs.  Louisa  Brown,  and  Dr.  William  A.  Cantrell.  She  was 
a  constant  member  of  the  Ladies'  Aid  Society,  and  at  her 
death,  December  29,  1891,  resolutions  of  respect  and  regret 
were  drawn  up  by  a  committee  appointed  for  the  purpose. 


JOHN  WASSELL, 

SENIOR   WARDEN. 

A.  D.  1813-1895.  As  shown  by  the  deed,  recorded  in 
the  office  of  the  circuit  clerk  at  Little  Rock,  John  Wassell  and 
Abner  S.  Washburn  were  wardens  of  Christ  Church  in  1841. 
John  Wassell  was  born  in  Kidderminster,  Worcester  County, 
England,  February  10,  1813,  and  emigrated  to  Cincinnati, 
Hamilton  County,  Ohio,  alone,  hoping  there  to  join  an  uncle. 
Failing  in  this,  he  apprenticed  himself  to  a  carpenter  and  soon 
attained  to  excellence  in  the  trade.  He  obtained  the  contract 
for  a  building  in  Grand  Gulf,  Miss.,  through  advertising 
medium,  and  afterwards  he  secured  in  the  same  manner,  the 
contract  for  building  the  Statehouse  at  Little  Rock,  Ark.  In 
1837  he  married  Miss  Margaret  Spotts,  a  resident  of  Louis- 
ville, Ky.,  though  a  native  of  Delaware,  and  brought  his  bride 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  39 

to  the  scene  of  his  labor.  They  went  to  housekeeping  in  a 
portion  of  the  State  building,  and  remained  there  until  it 
was  finished.  Since  that  time  he  was  successively  a  house 
builder,  a  farmer,  an  editor,  and  a  lawyer;  one  of  the  origi- 
nators of  the  Memphis  and  Little  Rock  Railroad ;  founder 
and  first  president  of  the  Deaf  Mute  Institute,  to  which  he 
donated  several  scholarships;  first  president  of  the  Home 
Water  Company;  was  appointed  mayor  of  the  city  by  Presi- 
dent Andrew  Johnson,  U.  S.  A.,  during  the  reconstruction, 
and  was  vice  president  of  the  First  National  Bank.  In  a 
word,  Mr.  Wassell  was  recognized  by  his  fellow-citizens  as 
a  philanthropist  as  well  as  an  expert  financier.  Back  of  these 
benevolent  characteristics  was  the  chief  motive  power — his 
allegiance  to  the  Church,  from  which  his  loyalty  never  waned. 
He  was  a  liberal  member  of  the  first  Vestry  of  Christ  Epis- 
copal Church,  contributing  to  the  maintenance  of  the  Church 
and  the  clergy,  and  so  continued  until  the  time  of  his  death, 
July  29,  1881.  When  the  first  Church  w7as  burned  he  was 
greatly  interested  in  the  building  of  another  on  the  same  site. 
He  donated  the  stone  water  table  that  surmounted  the  stone 
foundation.  He  died  before  it  was  finished,  January  29, 
1881,  and  was  buried  from  the  Chapel,  built  for  temporary 
use  on  the  lot  adjoining.  The  Rev.  T.  C.  Tupper,  who  was 
at  that  time  in  charge,  officiated  at  his  funeral.  He  was  68 
years  old  when  he  died,  and  left  a  comfortable,  maintenance 
for  his  widow  and  children.  Mrs.  Wassell  donated  the 
mostly  stained  glass  window  in  the  northeast  corner  of  the  new 
Church,  to  his  memory.  It  represents  the  three  Marys  at 
the  sepulchre  seeking  their  Lord,  and  their  interview  with 
the  angels.  Mrs.  Wassell  was  a  faithful  helpmeet  and 
devoted  Christian,  tenderly  beloved  by  her  children  and 
friends.       In  the  south  side  of  the  chancel  of  the  new  Church. 


40  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

a  Credence  Table  has  been  erected  to  her  memory.  It  is 
made  of  beautifully  carved  brass,  with  an  open  circular  center, 
tilled  with  the  mysterious  monogram  of  the  cross,  being_  the 
initial  Greek  letters  of  the  name  of  Christ  (i.  <?...  X  for  Ch. 
and  P  for  r.)  A  cross  of  brass,  encircled  with  a  crown  sur- 
mounts this  monogram  and  a  rim  of  brass  encases  a  plane  of 
walnut  wood,  on  which  the  vessels  of  the  Holy  Eucharist  rest 
during  the  Ante-Communion  service.  On  this  plane  is  a  plate 
of  brass  inscribed  with  these  words : 

To  the  service  of  God, 

And  in  memory  of  our  Mother, 

Margaret  Wassell, 

Entered  into  rest  September  6,  1895. 

The  children  of  John  Wassell  and  Margaret  Spotts,  his 
wife,  who  survive  them,  are : 

1.  Rebecca  E.,  wife  of  William  M.  Randolph,  a  prom- 
inent attorney  of  Memphis,  Tenn. 

2.  Albert  Wassell,  who  married  Miss  Leona  McAlmont, 
daughter  of  Dr.  Corydon  McAlmont. 

3.  Samuel  S.  Wassell,  who  married  Miss  Elizabeth 
McConaughey,  daughter  of  J.  W.  McConaughey. 

4.  Herbert  Wassell,  unmarried. 

The  children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Randolph  are  Mrs.  Laura 
Randolph  Norton ;  George  Randolph,  who  married  Miss- 
Birdie  Randolph,  of  New  York ;  Edward  Randolph,  who  mar- 
ried Miss  Julia  Balbach,  of  New  York ;  Amy  Randolph,  un- 
married, and  Wassell  Randolph,  student  at  Knoxville,  Tenn. 

The  children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Albert  Wassell  are  Ruth 
Helen,  Corydon  McAlmont,  and  John  Randolph. 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH  41 

The  children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Samuel  S.  Wassel]  arc 
Francis  John,  James  Bracey  (deceased),  Samuel  MeCon- 
aughey,  and  Herbert  Lynn,  all  minors. 

Note — It  has  been  in  vain  that  the  annalist  has  sought  in  various  channels  for 
accounts  of  Abner  S.  Washburn,  who  served  as  Junior  Warden  with  Mr.  John  Was- 
sell.  He  removed  from  Little  Rock  at  an  early  date  and  no  record  of  him  can  be 
traced.  Charles  Rapley  was  a  prominent  citizen  here,  a  large  owner  in  real  estate, 
but  no  answers  were  obtained  to  several  letters  of  inquiry  addressed  to  his  children. 
Of  Dr.  J.  P.  Norman  nothing  has  been  obtained,  except  the  inscription  found  on  his 
wife's  tomb,  which  still  may  be  seen  in  the  yard  of  the  Peabody  School.  It  is  this: 
"Sarah  H.  Samuel,  wife  of  J.  P.  Norman,  bora  April  13,  1818;  died  August  28,  1840. 
She  believed  that  her  God  would  be  merciful."  Of  D.  Butler  and  William  Prather 
no  reliable  information  has  been  obtained. 


HON.  DANIEL  RIXGO. 

A.  D.  1828-1854.  Hon.  Daniel  Bingo  was  Senior 
Warden  of  Christ  Church  in  184i>,  as  shown  by  the  record 
of  the  purchase  of  an  additional  lot,  lying  adjacent  to  the 
three  already  owned  by  the  Church : 

"Joshua  F.  Green  and  wife  to  Daniel  Ringo  and  John 
Wassell,  Wardens  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church.  Dated 
May  L,  1^4!».  Consideration,  $250.  Lot  1,  block  20,  city 
of  Little  Rock." 

Daniel  Ringo,  a  native  of  Kentucky,  born  in  1800,  was 
identified  with  the  history  of  Arkansas  at  an  early  date.  He 
is  mentioned  in  the  archives  of  the  State  as  clerk  of  the  Ter- 
ritorial Legislature,  which  was  in  session  in  October,  1828, 
having  been  a  resident  of  the  county  he  represented,  Clark, 
since  1825,  where  he  was  postmaster.  Before  that  time,  from 
1820  to  1836,  when  Arkansas  was  admitted  into  the  Umion, 
he  practiced  law.*  He  was  then  elected  Chief  Justice  of  the 
Supreme  Court,  and  in  1849  was  appointed  United  States 
District  Judge,  which  position  he  held  until  the  War  of  Seces- 
sion displaced  the  civil  authorities.       He  married  Miss  Mary 


♦See  Hempstead*s  History  of  Arkansas. 


42  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

Cocke,  of  Kentucky.  Her  sister  became  the  wife  of  Hon. 
Frederick  W.  Trapnall,  who  was  the  law  partner  of  John  W. 
Cocke  (as  well  as  brother-in-law).  These  gentlemen,  also 
from  Kentucky,  were  brilliant  lights  in  the  legal  galaxy,  and 
were  regular  attendants  of  the  Episcopal  Church.  Judge 
Ringo  was  a  grave,  stately  man,  who  had  a  lovely  wife  and 
several  children.     These  were : 

1.  Robert  Watkins,  or  "Wat,"  as  he  was  familiarly 
called.  He  enlisted  as  a  Confederate  soldier  and  died  in  a 
hospital  during  the  war. 

2.  Daniel,  Jr.,  associated  himself  with  a  young  man, 
John  Newbern,  in  the  first  literary  enterprise  of  the  city.  The 
Arkansas  Magazine  was  issued  by  them  in  1854,  and  lived  a 
short  while.  Young  Ringo  exchanged  the  pen  for  the  sword, 
was  wounded  in  an  engagement  in  Virginia  and  also  died  in 
a  hospital. 

3.  Mary  Frances,  a  beautiful  young  woman,  on  the 
eve  of  her  nuptials  with  Mr.  Harrison,  died  suddenly,  and  the 
broken  hearted  mother  soon  followed  her.  Judge  Ringo  sur- 
vived all  these  family  shocks,  but  fell  at  last,  like  a  well  sea- 
soned oak,  leaving  two  orphans,  Frank  and  Lily  (fourth  and 
fifth).  Frank  also  died  not  many  years  afterwards  and  Lily 
died  unmarried  in  1899,  in  San  Antonio.  The  entire  family 
has  thus  passed  away. 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  43 


HON.  FREDERICK  W.  TRAPNALL. 

Hon.  Frederick  W.  Trapnall,  whose  name  is  on  the  first 
list  of  Vestrymen  of  Christ  Church,  and  who  stands  among 
the  first  in  the  list  of  distinguished  lawyers  of  the  Little  Rock 
bar,  married  Miss  Frances  Cocke,  the  sister  of  his  law  partner, 
John  W.  Cocke.  They  owned  and  occupied  the  spacious, 
colonial  brick  residence,  at  the  head  of  Commerce  street,  on 
Fifth,  which  then  stood  alone  in  the  center  of  the  block,  sur- 
rounded by  trees  of  native  growth  and  sloping  greensward. 
They  had  one  daughter,  Mary,  who  survived  both  her  parents 
and  died  an  orphan  at  13  years  of  age.  Ben.  C.  Trap- 
nail,  brother  of  F.  W.  Trapnall,  was  unmarried.  Philip 
Trapnall,  younger  brother  of  Frederick,  became  a  junior 
partner  of  the  firm  of  Trapnall  &  Cocke,  and  married  Sallie, 
eldest  daughter  of  Colonel  Sandy  Faulkner,  who  was  the 
acknowledged  beauty  and  belle  of  the  city.  Bettie,  the  second 
daughter,  became  the  first  wife  of  Major  John  C.  Peay,  who 
served  in  the  Mexican  War,  as  well  as  later  in  the  Civil  War  as 
quartermaster.  Mattie,  the  third  daughter,  married  Mr.  Buch- 
anan. The  two  oldest  sons  of  Colonel  Faulkner  have  passed 
away,  as  well  as  the  children  of  his  old  age,  Philip  and  Minnie. 
All  have  paid  the  debt  of  nature,  and  what  once  formed  the 
most  hospitable  circle  anywhere  to  be  found,  is  remembered 
as  a  flash  of  brilliant  sunshine,  extinguished  in  gloom. 


44  THE    ANNALS    OP    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 


JOHN  HUTT. 

A.  D.  1835-1878.  John  Hutt,  Judge  of  the  City  Court 
of  Little  Rock,  in  the  then  Territory  of  Arkansas,  1835,  was 
a  member  of  the  first  Vestry  of  the  first  Episcopal  Church, 
and  his  name  appears  often  on  the  list  of  subscribers  to  the 
building.  He  was  elected  treasurer  of  the  State  of  Arkan- 
sas in  1838,  and  again  in  1843.  He  was  the  son  of  William 
Spence  Hutt,  Sr.,  and  Constance  Eugenie  Etienne  Villard, 
his  wife,  who,  with  her  family,  had  been  exiled  from  Paris, 
Erance,  at  the  time  of  the  French  Revolution.  Judge  Hutt 
and  Peter  T.  Crutchfield,  receiver  of  public  moneys  at  Little 
Rock  for  many  years,  married  sisters,  Misses  Harriet  and 
Elizabeth  Field,  daughters  of  William  Field.  John  Hutt, 
William  and  Andre  were  brothers.  William  Hutt  married 
Elizabeth  Findley  and  Andre  Hutt  married  Francissa  Gaines, 
widow  of  Benjamin  Linebeaugh,  and  niece  of  Peter  Crutch- 
field.  Her  two  daughters  by  her  first  marriage  were  Ellen, 
who  died  in  early  womanhood,  deeply  lamented,  and  Laura, 
who  married  Captain  Lucian  B.  Xash,  now  of  Spokane,  Wash. 
Her  other  children  are  the  only  persons  left  of  the  name  of 
Hutt  in  Little  Rock.  These  are  William  S.  Hutt  and  Mollie, 
wife  of  Edward  C.  Newton.  Her  grand  children,  all  bap- 
tized members  of  the  Episcopal  Church,  are  Edward  Sevier, 
Andre  Hutt,  Frankie  (Mrs.  William  Frederick  Bracy)  Mary 
Lizzie  and  Cornell  Randolph.  The  accompanying  tribute  to 
Mrs.  Elizabeth  A.  Crutchfield,  died  December  11,  1878,  who 
was  a  devoted  Church  member,  will  be  read  with  interest  for 
her  sake,  as  well  as  for  that  of  the  distinguished  writer,  Chief 
Justice  Elbert  IT.  English,  and  the  wife  of  his  youth,  Julia 
Fisher :  i 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  45 

TKIBUTE  OF  RESPECT. 

ALUS.    ELIZABETH   A.    CRUTCHBLELD. 

The  justly  merited  tribute  to  the  memory  of  the  lamented 
Mrs.  Savage,  published  a  few  days  since,  reminded  me  that 
no  one  had  written  an  obituary  of  her  contemporary,  the  most 
estimable  lady  whose  name  heads  this  article. 

Elizabeth  Ann  Eield  first  saw  the  light  on  the  20th  of 
July,  1S13,  in  Dinwiddie  County,  Va.  She  was  of  a  good 
family,  and  a  niece  of  General  Winfield  Scott,  famous  as  a 
military  commander  in  the  American  wars.  Like  the  daugh- 
ters of  all  of  the  Virginians  of  means,  she  was  well  educated, 
and  grew  to  womanhood  accomplished  and  beautiful.  In 
1833,  she  came  to  Little  Rock,  then  a  small  village,  clustered 
about  the  point  of  rock  which  juts  into  the  Arkansas  river, 
and  from  which  the  town  took  its  name.  It  was  called  by  the 
early  navigators  of  the  river  Little  Rock  to  distinguish  it  from 
Big  Rock,  a  mile  or  more  above.  Just  below  the  point  of 
rock,  the  early  keel  adventurers  landed  their  trading  boats 
and  carried  on  a  commerce  with  the  Quapaw  Indians,  then 
monarchs  of  the  forest  and  the  game.  In  after  years  it  became 
and  is  now  known  as  the  steamboat  landing.  There  are  but 
few  persons  living  now  who  remember  Miss  Field  when  she 
first  came  to  Little  Rock,  and  she  was  for  a  time  the  belle  of 
the  village.  She  was  one  of  its  early  roses.  How  many, 
alike  beautiful  in  the  spring  time,  summer  and  even  autumn 
of  life,  like  her  have  bloomed  and  faded!  She  intermarried 
with  Peter  Tinsley  ( 'rutchfield,  Esquire,  at  the  residence  of 
Major  Prior,  Spring  Hill,  Hempstead  County,  in  1834. 
Major  Prior,  a  Red  River  planter,  and  fine  specimen  of  the 
old  Virginia  gentleman,  was  a  friend  and  acquaintance  of 
Miss  Field  and  her  parents,  and  invited  her  to  be  married  at 
his  house.  Major  Crutchfield,  as  he  was  afterward  called, 
was  then  a  young  member  of  the  territorial  bar,  and  became 
ir  after  years  a  prominent  lawyer  here  and  on  the  circuit.  He, 
with  Pike.  Ashley,  Ringo,  Fowler.  Walker,  Royston  and 
others,  pioneer  lawyers,  strong  men  and  learned  in  the  old 
books  (no  Code  fledo'linsrs)    swam   the  bayous,   and   at   night 


46  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

spread  their  blankets  under  the  shelter  of  the  oaks  and  read 
their  destinies  among  the  stars.  Major  Crntchfield  filled 
several  places  of  public  trust,  and  was  noted  for  his  fidelity  of 
character.  He  was  receiver  of  public  moneys  for  the  United 
States  for  some  years  before,  and  at  the  time  of  the  outburst 
of  the  Civil  War  between  the  States  ;  and  when  armed  soldiers 
wont,  under  a  military  order,  to  seize  the  public  moneys  in  his 
keeping;,  though  a  Southern  man,  he  refused  to  surrender 
them,  believing  it  to  be  his  duty  to  preserve  them,  and  he  stood 
fearlessly  guarding  them  until  they  were  forced  from  him  by 
superior  numbers.  He  died  not  long  after.  .Mrs.  Crutch- 
field,  at  the  time  of  the  death  of  her  husband,  was  well  pre- 
served and  a  fine  looking,  woman,  but  remained  a  widow, 
devoted  to  his  memory,  until  her  own  sudden  death,  which 
occurred  December  11,  1878,  at  the  family  homestead.  She 
raised  but  one  child,  a  daughter,  now  Mrs.  Burrow.  Many 
of  the  old  citizens  will  remember  the  brilliant  wedding  of  Miss 
Juliet  Crntchfield,  beautiful  and  accomplished  like  her 
mother,  and  General  ISTapoleoi)  B.  Burrow,  then  the  oily- 
tongued  orator  of  Arkansas,  and  the  peer  of  Yancey,  of  Ala- 
bama— now,  having  abandoned  very  much  public  life,  lie 
holds  the  plow  as  it  turns  to  the  snn  the  solemn  soil.  All 
remember  the  hospitality  of  the  Crntchfield  mansion,  and  the 
pleasant,  graceful  and  lady-like  manner  in  which  its  mistress 
presided.  jSTow  she  has  followed  her  husband  to  the  tomb, 
and  be  it  hoped  to  the  better  land,  and  others  occupy  the  old 
homestead.  My  acquaintance  commenced  with  Mrs.  Crntch- 
field, at  the  point  of  rock,  on  a  Sabbath  morning  early  in  June, 
1844.  The  river  was  at  its  flood,  the  June  rise  upon  the 
rain  rise,  and  a  group  were  there  assembled  looking  at  the 
great  cottonwoods  that  had  been  rifted  from  the  shores  and 
were  floating  on  the  foaming  tide.  Mrs.  Crntchfield  was 
there,  holding  Juliet,  a  little  girl,  by  the  hand.  The  child 
cast  a  flower  on  the  flood,  and  bade  it  take  her  compliments  to 
the  sea.  The  flower  may  never  have  reached  the  sea,  but  the 
group  of  spectators  were  on  another  stream,  which  has  borne 
most  of  them  to  another,  a  deeper  and  a  wider  sea — a  shoreless 
sea ! 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  47 

Mary  Melbourne,  the  canary-throated  songstress,  after- 
ward wife  of  Senator  Borland,  was  there,  and  the  strings  of 
her  harp  have  been  for  years  broken  and  her  sweet  tones 
hushed  in  the  silence  of  the  tomb.  Chief  Justice  Ringo  and 
wife,  Sam  H.  Hempstead,  a  prominent  lawyer,  and  wife; 
Charles  P.  Bertrand  and  Thomas  D.  Merrick,  who  were  of 
the  group,  all  sleep.  One  was  among  them  (who  need  not  be 
mimed)  whose  bright  black  eyes,  bewitching  face,  and  merry, 
ringing  laugh,  all  who  survive  will  remember,  for  none  who 
knew  can  forget  her.  She  rests  near  her  friend  and  neighbor, 
Mrs.  Crutchfield.  Mrs.  Dr.  Adams  (sister  of  William  and 
Kbcnezer  Cummins)  still  lives  and  looks  but  little  changed. 
She  is  one  of  the  roses  that  defies  the  winters,  and  in  this 
respect  is  like  Mrs.  Crutchfield,  who  was  unusually  well  pre- 
served to  the  time  of  her  death.  John  Karns  and  Dr.  Dodge 
were  of  the  group,  and  appear  now  about  as  they  did  then, 
and  look  like  they  might  live  as  long  as  the  Wandering  Jew. 
So  was  Wm.  B.  Wait,  then  a  mature  man,  and  yet  one  of  our 
most  active  and  reliable  business  men. 

Peace  to  the  memory  of  our  departed  friend,  Mrs. 
Crutchfield,  and  may  roses  bloom  upon  her  tomb ! 

E.  H.  E. 


JOHX  ADAMSOX,  SR. 

A.  D.  1836-1876.  John  Adamson,  Sr.,  mentioned  in 
the  list  of  first  Vestry  of  Christ  Church,  married  Rebecca 
Prather  in  Montgomery  County,  Md.,  and  came  to  Arkansas 
in  1836.  He  had  served  as  an  officer  in  the  War  of  the  Revo- 
lution. He  died  in  Little  Rock,  Ark.,  July  10,  1861. 
Mention  is  made  of  him  in  the  diaries  of  Bishop  Otey. 

William  Adamson,  son  of  John  Adamson  and  Rebecca 
Prather,  his  wife,  Avas  born  in  Maryland,  and  came  to  Little 
Rock  with  his  father  in  1836,  and  married  Louisa  Petit,  Sep- 
tember  16,  1851.      He  served  m  the  Mexican  War. 


48  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

John  Adamson,  son  of  William  Adamson  and  Louisa 
Petit,  his  wife,  was  born  in  Little  Rock,  Ark.,  November  19, 
1852,  and  married  Bettie  Hendren,  of  Pine  Bluff,  Ark.,  'No- 
vember 2,  1871. 

William  Custis  Adamson,  son  of  John  Adamson  (2d) 
and  Bettie  Hendren,  his  wife,  was  born  at  Willowdale,  Ark., 
February  11,  1873.     Unmarried. 

John  Selden  Adamson,  son  of  John  Adamson  (2d)  and 
Bettie  Hendren,  his  wife,  was  born  at  Willowdale,  Ark., 
January  17,  1876.* 


NICHOLAS  PEAY. 

A.  D.  1  829.  Among  the  very  earliest  citizens  of  Little 
Pock  was  Nicholas  Peay.  He  was  one  of  eleven  children. 
Two  of  his  brothers  are  mentioned  as  members  of  the  House 
of  Commons  from  Rockingham  County,  in  the  General 
Assembly  of  North  Carolina,  George  Peay,  in  the  years  1793, 
1794,  and  1795,  and  John  Peay  in  1797.  Nicholas  Peay 
went  to  Kentucky  and  there  married  Miss  Juliet  Neill.  From 
there  he  came  to  Arkansas  with  his  family  in  1825  and 
became  proprietor  of  the  first  hotel  in  the  city  of  Little  Rock. 
Their  children  were  eleven  in  number.  Those  who  survived 
to  adult  age  were: 

1.  Mary  Pea;/,  who  married  William  F.  Pope,  relative 
and  private  secretary  of  Governor  John  Pope,  avIio  was  the 
third  governor  of  the  Territory  of  Arkansas  in  1829,  and  the 
brother-indaw  of  John  Quincey  x\dams,  president  of  United 
States;  Willaim  F.  Pope  was  the  author  of  "Early  Days  in 


*This  closes  the  list  of  members  of  the  first  Vestrv  of  Christ  Church.    Bishop 
Otey's  diary  will  supply  such  information  as  may  be  lacking. 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  49 

Arkansas."     The  children  of  Mary  Peay  and  Wra.  F.  Pope, 
live  in  number,  all  died  in  infancy. 

2.  Gordon  Neill  Peay,  who  married  Sue  Nelson  Crease, 
sixth  daughter  of  John  II.  and  Jane  Xelson  Crease,  had  Jane 
Peay,  who  married  W.  W.  Morrison.  They  had  Gordon, 
William,  Jane,  Norman  Crease,  Caroline,  Xelson,  and  Mary 
Morrison;  Mary  Peay,  who  married  W.  B.  Worthen,  and  had 
Sue,  George,  Elizabeth,  Louisa,  and  Mary  Worthen.  Eliza- 
beth Peay  married  Antoine  Bohlinger,  and  had  Fred,  Neill, 
Elizabeth,  Laura  Lewis,  Mary  Sue,  and  Caroline  Bohlinger. 
Nicholas  Peay  married  Leicester  Hornibrook,  and  had  James, 
Leicester,  Elizabeth,  and  Nicholas  Peay.  Gordon  N.  Peay 
married  Zilla  Cole,  and  had  Gordon  and  Helen  Peay. 
Caroline  Peyton  Peay,  unmarried. 

3.  John  Coleman  Peay,  who  married  first,  Bettie, 
second  daughter  of  Colonel  Sandy  Faulkner,  and  last,  Mar- 
garet Elizabeth  Beyburn,  third  daughter  of  Samuel  W.  Bey- 
burn.  They  had  Beyburn,  William,  Ashley,  Juliet  Mildred 
(died  in  early  womanhood),  and  John  Coleman  Peay.  Major 
Peay  died  August  29,  1898,  deeply  lamented  by  relatives  and 
friends. 

4.  William  Nicholas  Peay,  who  married  Nannie  Nantz, 
orphan  niece  of  Mrs.  Frederick  W.  Trapnall,  and  had  one 
daughter,  Katie.       Both  deceased,  but  the  daughter  survives. 

5.  Juliet  Elizabeth  Peay,  who  married  first,  Dr.  Wil- 
liam Hammond,  and  had  Fanny  G.  (Mrs.  Jesse  Blocker), 
Alice  P.,  and  William  H.  Hammond,  and  second,  William 
Easley,  and  had  one  daughter,  Sue  C.  (Mrs.  Barclay),  one 
grandson,  Hugh.       William  Blocher  is  also  a  grandson. 

0.  Sophronia  Peay,  who  married  Dr.  George  Golder, 
deceased.      Their  children  arc  Mary  Alice  Golder  and  Hen- 


50  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

rietta  Viola  Golder,  who  married  June  C.  Browne,  manager 
of  Iron  Mountain  Telegraph  Company. 

The  family  of  Mr.  Samuel  \Y.  Reyburn  were  also  devoted 
Church  members  of  the  first  Church. 

1.  William  Reyburn,  the  eldest  son,  married  Mary 
Fisher,  who  was  the  sister  of  Julia  Fisher,  first  wife  of  Chief 
Justice  Elbert  IT.  English.  They  had  one  son,  Elbert  Wood- 
ward, who  died. 

Mrs.  Reyburn  afterwards  became  the  wife  of  J.  V.  Zim- 
merman, and  had  three  children.  Two  are  living — Mrs.  Julia 
Reed  and  Jesse  F.  Zimmerman. 

2.  Joseph  W.  Reyburn  married  Arkansas  Lawson. 
Their  children  are  Mrs.  Caroline  (Reyburn)  Dutton,  Mrs. 
Frances  (Reyburn)  Van  Etten,  Miss  Nellie  Reyburn,  and 
Samuel  Woodward  Reyburn. 

3.  Cordelia  Wilder  married  William  Scull.  Children  : 
Reyburn  (deceased),  Samuel  Christian,  Zoe  de  Villemont, 
William  Biddle,  and  Melanie. 

4.  Mary  Jane,  or  "Jamie,"  who  married  Dr.  Benj. 
Scull,  a  distinguished  musician,  and  for  a  long  time  organist 
of  Christ  Church.  Their  only  daughter,  Eleanor  Therese,  or 
"Xona,"  married  William  Joseph  Dunklin.  They  had 
Jamie  Barnes,  Anderson,  Prudilla,  and  Joseph  Dibrell.  Jamie 
Barnes  married  George  Coit  Davis,  of  Austin,  Chicago,  111. 
The  only  son  of  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Benj.  Scull  is  Miles  Scull, 
unmarried. 

5.  Margaret  Elizabeth,  who  married  John  Coleman 
Peay.  Two  younger  sisters,  Annie  and  Fanny  Reyburn,  died 
in  early  womanhood. 

The  surviving  members  of  these  families  are  steadfast  in 
their  devotion  to  the  Church,  and  their  names  should,  and  will 
be,  perpetuated  in  the  annals  of  the  Church. 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  51 


WILLIAM  B.  WAIT. 

This  name,  so  familiar  to  the  members  of  the  congrega- 
tion of  Christ  Church,  as  the  guardian  of  her  financial  interest 
from  the  time  of  Bishop  Otey's  first  visitation  till  very  nearly 
the  time  of  his  death,  must  have  full  space  here  as  a  trusted 
Church  official  and  highly  esteemed  citizen.  From  "The 
Encyclopedia  of  the  New  West/'  published  by  the  United 
States  Biographical  Publishing  Company,  at  Marshall,  Texas, 
in  1881,  is  quoted  the  subjoined  accurate  sketch  of  Mr.  Wait's 
life: 

A.  D.  1808.  William  B.  Wait  was  born  in  Groton, 
Mass.,  January  10,  1808.  His  father,  Levi  Wait,  a  Scotch- 
man, a  farmer,  a  Mason,  and  an  eventempered  kind  of  man, 
moved  to  Albany,  1ST.  Y.,  in  1817,  and  died  there  in  1822. 
Mr.  Wait's  mother  was  Elizabeth  Jones,  born  at  Acton,  Mass. 
Her  mother  was  married  three  times.  First  to  Captain  Isaac 
Davis,  who  was  the  first  officer  killed  in  the  Revolution,  near 
Concord  Bridge,  Mass.,  who  is  named  in  one  of  Webster's 
orations,  delivered  at  Acton,  on  the  occasion  of  the  erection  of 
the  monument  at  that  place. 

A.  D.  1881.  Mr.  Wait's  mother  raised  eight  children, 
of  whom  the  subject  of  this  sketch  is  the  oldest,  and  six  are 
living.  (1881.)  There  has  never  been  a  stain  or  scandal 
heard  of  any  one  of  these  children,  and  there  is  not  an  office- 
holder among  all  the  kith  or  kin. 

A.  D.  1824.  Mr.  Wait,  leaving  his  home  in  Albany  in 
1824,  went  to  Boston  and  remained  five  years,  as  a  clerk,  at 
$75  a  year  and  his  board,  the  first  four  years,  and  $100  for 
the  last  year,  in  a  grocery  store. 


52  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

A.  D.  1829.  In  July,  1829,  he  left  Boston  and  went  to 
Cincinnati  to  better  his  prospects.  He  was  in  and  about  Cin- 
cinnati and  Louisville  two  years,  as  a  clerk  in  a  store  and  on 
steamboats.  Up  to  this  time  he  had  saved  no  money.  After 
reaching  Cincinnati  and  paying  his  second  week's  board  in 
advance,  he  had  12^  cents  left,  and  has  never  inherited  any- 
thing since. 

A.  D.  1830-1843.  On  the  28th  of  December,  1830,  he 
landed  in  Arkansas,  and,  being  previously  engaged,  took  the 
position  of  clerk  in  the  store  of  Frederick  Xotrebe,  a  general 
trader  at  Arkansas  Post.  He  remained  with  him  till  May,- 
1834,  then  went  to  Little  Rock  and  went  into  business  with 
Edward  Dunn,  under  the  firm  name  of  Wait  &  Dunn,  general 
traders.  Mr.  Dunn  dying  in  1836,  Mr.  Wait  continued  the 
business  until  1838,  when  he  went  back  to  Arkansas  Post,  and 
went  into  business  with  Charles  F.  Xotrebe,  under  the  firm 
name  of  Xotrebe  &  Wait,  successors  of  Frederick  Xotrebe. 
He  remained  there  till  the  fall  of  1843,  when  (Mr.  Xotrebe 
having  died  in  1841)  he  brought  the  stock  to  Little  Rock  in 
September,  1843.  From  that  time  till  1854  he  was  actively 
engaged  in  selling  goods,  and  all  kinds  of  mercantile  trans- 
actions. 

A.  D.  1854-1861.  In  February,  1854,  he  was  burned 
out,  and,  from  that  time,  went  into  the  collection  and  exchange 
business,  and  so  continued  in  that  business  until  1861,  when 
the  Civil  War  caused  him  to  close  up  all  business,  as  near  as 
he  could.  During  the  war  he  remained  in  Little  Rock  with 
his  family  all  the  time,  taking  no  part  in  it,  except  what  is 
mentioned  further  on.  Since  the  war  Mr.  Wait  has  been 
retired,  doing  no  regular  business,  beyond  taking  care  of  his 
city  and  country  real  estate  and  other  property.  During  the 
•var  his  principal  business  was  trying  to  take  care  of  what  he 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  53 

had.  For  about  a  year  prior  to  General  Steele's  taking  pos- 
s<  --ion  of  Little  Rock,  lie  was  acting  for  Edward  Cross,  deposi- 
tary of  the  Confederate  States,  and  handled  and  paid  out 
$33,000,000. 

A.  D.  1843-1863.  Mr.  Wait's  practice  through  life  has 
been  to  deal  fairly  with  everybody.  With  the  exception  of 
five  years  at  the  Arkansas  Post,  he  endeavored  to  do  a  cash 
business  in  selling  goods.  He  never  had  trouble  in  buying 
goods  on  a  credit  from  the  beginning  to  the  end  of  his  mer- 
cantile career.  From  1843  to  1854  he  never  sued  but  one 
man  on  a  bill  of  goods  sold.  There  was  never  a  judgment 
rendered  against  him  in  any  court  in  the  State  on  an  action 
of  debt.  He  always  paid  his  bills.  Looking  on  all  the  busi- 
ness he  has  handled — his  long  and  varied  business  career — 
this  is  a  remarkable  feature  in  his  history.  Nor  was  he  ever 
forced  into  chancery  that  he  did  not  beat  the  plaintiff.  His 
note  was  never  protested  for  nonpayment.  He  has  not,  as  a 
rule,  invested  in  public  or  general  enterprises.  He  is  presi- 
dent of  the  Little  Rock  Building  Association,  numbers  three 
and  four;  is  director  and  vice  president  of  the  Merchants' 
National  Bank,  of  Little  Rock,  and  was  among  the  first  direc- 
tors of  the  Cairo  and  Fulton  Railroad,  and  treasurer  of  that 
company  from  its  organization  till  1863,  and  was  a  director 
of  the  Bank  of  the  State  of  Arkansas  from  its  organization  till 
1838.  He  never  belonged  to  any  secret  society  or  military 
company.  He  seldom  kept  more  than  one  clerk;  kept  his 
own  books ;  never  hired  a  bookkeeper,  and  his  success  is  to  be 
largely  attributed  to  his  handling  his  money  himself,  and  to 
the  close  attention  paid  to  his  own  business.  He  was  never 
ashamed  to  sweep  out  his  store,  or  to  do  anything  necessary 
about  his  establishment.  Expenses  and  bad  debts  did  not 
swallow  up  his  profits.       This  record  is  valuable  as  suggesting 

—5— 


54  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

the  pathway  to  financial  success.       Our  young  readers  who 
would  be  wise,  will  be  admonished  by  the  perusal  of  these 

statements. 

A.  D.  1838-1869.  Though  Mr.  Wait  has  been  a  Demo- 
crat, he  has  occasionally  voted  for  candidates  on  the  other 
side.  He  was  against  secession,  but  when  his  State  went  out 
he  determined  to  remain  at  home  and  ojjerate  with  the  Con- 
federacy. For  many  years  prior  to  1863  he  served  as  an 
alderman  in  Little  Rock.  He  has  been  twice  married.  His 
first  wife,  to  whom  he  was  married  in  Little  Rock,  December 
11,  1838,  died  there  December  31,  1863.  Her  name  was 
Martha  Lavinia  Reardon,  sister  of  John  Reardon,  the  book- 
seller at  Little  Rock.  She  was  born  in  Easton,  Md.,  in  1809, 
the  daughter  of  Lambert  Reardon,  a  merchant  in  Maryland, 
first,  and  afterward  in  Little  Rock.  He  was  a  man  universally 
respected  for  his  honest  and  correct  character  and  gentle- 
manly manners,  and  was  of  Irish  descent.  By  this  marriage 
Mr.  Wait  had  four  children,  only  one  of  whom  is  living,  viz : 
Charles  Edmond,  born  in  Little  Rock,  November  3,  1S49; 
graduated  at  the  University  of  Virginia ;  married  in  August, 
1879,  Miss  Leila  Beasley,  of  Petersburg,  Va.,  and  by  her  had 
one  child,  William  Beasley  Wait,  December  24,  1880. 
Charles  is  professor  of  chemistry  and  metallurgy  and  manager 
of  the  school  of  mines  at  Rolla,  Mo.,  a  rising  man,  of  whom 
any  father  might  be  proud.*  Mr.  Wait's  second  marriage, 
which  occurred  at  Pittsburg,  Pa.,  May  20,  1867,  was  with 
Mrs.  Fannie  Eastin  Tyler,  widow  of  William  H.  Tyler,  lieu- 
tenant in  the  United  States  army.   She  was  born  and  educated 


*Mr.  Charles  E.  Wait  lost  his  wife  and  was  married  a  second  time  to  Miss  Har- 
riet Morrison.    By  this  marriage  are  two  children,  Chas.  E.  Wait,  Jr.,  and  Fanny. 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  55 

in  Alabama.  By  this  marriage  Mr.  Wait  has  one  child,  Robert 
Eastin,  born  at  Pittsburg,  Pa.,  July  24,  1869.* 

Mrs.  Wait  belongs  to  the  Episcopal  Church.  She  is  a 
sister  of  Mrs.  W.  W.  Spotswood,  formerly  of  the  United  States 
navy.  Her  sister,  Matilda,  was  the  wife  of  Colonel  Alexander 
Montgomery,  of  the  United  States  army.  Mrs.  Fannie  Wait's 
father,  Thomas  Eastin,  edited  the  first  newspaper  published 
at  Key  West,  Florida.  He  was  on  General  Jackson's  staff 
a1  the  battle  of  Xew  Orleans ;  was  navy  agent  at  Pensacola, 
under  Van  Buren's  administration,  and  died  in  Florida  in 
1863.  His  wife  (Mrs.  Wait's  mother)  was  Lucinda  Gayle, 
sister  of  Governor  John  Gayle,  of  Alabama.  She  died  at 
Mobile,  Ala.,  in  1870. 

Mrs.  Wait's  first  husband,  William  H.  Tyler,  a  relation 
of  President  Tyler,  graduated  at  West  Point.  Her  sister, 
Helen,  is  the  wife  of  R.  P.  Pulliam,  a  lawyer  at  Fort  Smith. 
Her  sister,  Lucinda,  died  the  wife  of  Dr.  Rossell,  of  the 
United  States  army.  She  left  a  son,  William  Trent  Rossell, 
a  graduate  of  West  Point,  who  now  belongs  to  the  corps  of 
civil  engineers  of  the  United  States  army.  One  of  Mrs. 
Wait's  cousins,  Miss  Mary  Eastin,  presided  in  the  White 
House  during  part  of  General  Jackson's  administration,  and 
was  married  there  to  Lucius  J.  Polk,  the  first  marriage,  it  is 
believed,  that  ever  occurred  in  the  White  House.  Mr.  Wait 
owns  the  finest  residence  in  the  State  of  Arkansas,f  built 
by  Alexander  McDonald,  ex-United  States  Senator,  at  a 
cost  of  $40,000.  He  owns  and  rents  several  storehouses, 
several  blocks  and  lots  in  town,  a  small  stock  in  the  Merchants' 
National  Bank,  has  $17,000  stock  in  the  two  Little  Rock 


*  Robert  Eastin  Wait  married  Miss  Isabelle  Evans  Smart,  daughter  of  Rev.  Rich- 
ard Davis  Smart,  a  distinguished  divine  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church.  They 
have  one  daughter,  Alice  St.  Clair  Wait. 

|Now  owned  and  occupied  by  Colonel  Thomas  W.  Newton  and  family. 


50  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

Building  Associations,  and  owns  4,000  or  5,000  acres  of  land 
in  Lincoln,  Arkansas,  Lonoke,  Clark,  and  Pulaski  counties. 

His  height  is  5  feet  4  inches;  weight,  125  pounds;  eyes, 
blue  and  of  very  amiable  expression. 

He  has  been  treasurer  of  the  Episcopal  Church  of  Little 
Rock  for  about  thirty  years,  since  1843,  and  was  chairman 
of  the  street  committee  in  the  city  for  several  years  before 
the  war. 

Mr.  Wait  was  first  vice  president  of  the  First  National 
Bank  in  this  city.  Upon  his  resignation,  at  the  meeting  of 
the  board  of  directors,  the  following  resolutions  were  adopted : 

Resolved,  That  although  we  cannot  expect  our  words 
to  add  to  the  honorable  reputation  of  a  man  who  commenced 
active  business  in  this  city  more  than  half  a  century  ago,  and 
has  been  known  of  all  men  as  a  gentleman  of  business  integ- 
rity, whose  entire  career  has  been  without  spot  or  blemish,  yet 
we  would  violate  our  feelings  and  be  recreant  to  our  duty  if 
we  permitted  our  fellow-director,  William  B.  Wait,  to  retire 
from  the  first  vice  presidency  of  this  First  National  Bank 
of  Little  Rock,  Ark.,  without  some  official  acknowledgment 
of  our  admiration  for  his  many  excellencies. 

Resolved,  That  we  desire  to  bear  cheerful  testimony  to 
the  fact  that  during  our  years  of  association  with  William  B. 
Wait,  his  uprightness  of  action,  his  steadfastness  of  purpose 
and  never  failing  kindness  of  consideration  of  all  with  whom 
he  has  been  associated  fills  each  of  us  with  a  sincere  admira- 
tion for  him  that  will  be  as  lasting  as  our  memories. 

Resolved,  That  K  Kupferle,  P.  K  Roots,  and  M.  M. 
Cohn  be  appointed  a  committee  to  present  this  expression  of 
sentiments  to  Mr.  Wait  in  such  a  manner  and  with  such  a 
souvenir  as  their  tastes  may  dictate. 

The  children  of  Mr.  Wm.  B.  Wait  now  living  are : 

1.  Charles  Edmond,  of  Knoxville,  Tenn.,  who  married 
first  Leila  Beasley,   and  had  one  daughter,  Fanny.        Both 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  57 

mother  and  child  died.      Second  wife  was  Harriet  Morrison, 
of  Virginia,  who  had  one  son,  Charles  Edmond,  Jr. 

2.  Hubert  Eastin,  who  married  Isabelle  Evans  Smart, 
daughter  of  Rev.  Dr.  Richard  Davis  Smart,  of  St.  Louis 
Methodist  Conference,  and  Julia  Isabelle  Evans,  his  first 
wife.     A  daughter,  Alice  St.  Clair,  was  born  to  them. 

WILLIAM  S.  FULTON. 

A.  D.  1835-1844.  William  S.  Fulton,  whose  name 
heads  the  list  of  subscribers  to  the  first  Episcopal  Church,  in 
Little  Rock  (coming  after  the  names  of  the  collectors,  Rev. 
Dr.  Yeager,  John  H.  Crease,  Wm.  C.  Scott,  and  Jos.  Grubb), 
served  as  fourth  governor  of  the  Territory  of  Arkansas  in 
1835.  He  was  afterwards  elected  for  the  short  term  to  the 
United  States  Senate  in  1S36,  and  died  in  1844.  His  family 
attended  the  services  of  the  Church.  His  father  was  Judge 
David  Fnlton,  of  Baltimore,  Md.,  who  married  Miss  Elizabeth 
Savin.  Two  sons  and  a  daughter  of  this  marriage  were  well- 
known  citizens  here,  viz : 

1.  Hon.  Wm.  Savin  Fulton,  who  married  Matilda 
Rowland. 

2.  Dr.  John  Fulton,  who  married  Caroline  Scull. 

3.  Jane  Fulton  who  married,  first,  Mr.  Shall,  and 
second,  Dr.  Holt. 

The  children  of  ex-Governor  Fnlton  and  Matilda  Row- 
land, his  wife,  were: 

Elizabeth  Fulton,  who  married  Moorhead  Wright,  and 
had  William  Fulton,  Elizabeth  Moorhead,  Imogene,  Amelie, 
and  Isaac  Wright. 

William  Fulton  Wright,  married  Louisa  Watkins,  eldest 


58  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

daughter  of  Chief  Justice  Geo.  C.  Watkins  and  Mary,  daugh- 
ter of  John  H.  and  Jane  P.  Crease.  Their  children  are  Moor- 
head  (Watkins,  died),  Mary  and  Louisa  Wright. 

May  Wright  married  S.  French  Hoge,  of  Kentucky,  and 
had  Virginia  Briggs,  William  Fulton,  and  Charles  Eugene 
Wright. 

Elizabeth  Moorhead  married  Dr.  Putnam  Dickinson,  and 
had  Elise  and  Wright  (both  died),  Putnam,  Imogene,  and 
Annette  Dickinson. 

Imogene  married  Ambrose  Hundley  Sevier,  and  had 
Maude,  Easter  (died),  Ambrose  Hundley,  Amelie,  Imogene 
(died),  Juliet  Sevier. 

Amelie  married  Dean  Adams,  and  had  one  son,  John  D. 
Adams. 

Isaac  died,  a  minor. 

Sophia  Fulton  married,  first,  James  M.  Curran,  a  distin- 
guished young  lawyer,  and  had  William  S.,  Matilda  F.,  and 
Alice  Jimora  ( hirran,  and,  second,  Chief  Justice  Geo.  C. 
Watkins,  and  had  Maria  Louise,  Elizabeth  Wright  (died), 
Georgie  Claiborne,  and  Ida  Watkins. 

William,  8.  Curran  married  Jennie  Goodfellow,  and  had 
James  Moore  and  Hattie  Curran. 

Matilda  F.  married  Francis  Johnson,  and  had  Alice, 
Ada  May,  and  Robert  W.  Johnson. 

Alice  married  Celsus  P.  Perrie,  and  have  one  daughter, 
May  Curran  Perrie. 

Alice  Jimora  married  Frederick  Elias  Conway,  and  had 
Frederick  Xelson,  May  Fulton,  Alice  Elise,  James  (hirran, 
and  Claiborne  Watkins  Conway. 

Maria  Louise  married  Wm.  J.  Turner,  and  had  George 
Watkins  (died),  William  J.,  and  Helen  A.  Turner. 


THE    ANNALS    OP    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  59 

Georgie  Claiborne  married  Pope  Yeatman ;  no  children. 

Ida  married  Marshall  Shirk ;  they  have  one  daughter, 
Anne  Bell  Shirk. 

In  the  north  wall  of  the  new  Church  is  a  window  with 
six  lifesize  figures  representing  Dorcas,  "who  was  full  of  good 
works  and  almsdeeds,  which  she  did,"  and  inscribed  with 
these  words : 

Sacred  to  the  memory  of  Sophia  Watkins. 
Blessed  are  the  dead  who  die  in  the  Lord  from  henceforth. 

This  window  was  donated  by  the  two  younger  daughters 
of  the  deceased,  Georgie  and  Ida. 

Ida  Fulton,  youngest  daughter  of  ex-Governor  Fulton, 
married  William  Hunter,  and  had  two  children.  All  the 
family  are  dead. 

2.  Dr.  J olin  Fulton  removed  from  Little  Rock  at  an 
early  date. 

3.  Jane  Fulton,  sister  of  William  Savin  and  Dr.  John 
Fulton,  married,  first,  Mr.  Shall,  and  had  three  children — 
David  Fulton  Shall,  who  married  Mary  Stout,  and  had  one 
daughter,  Mary  Lizzie  (parents  and  daughter,  all  dead)  ; 
Margaret  Ann,  who  married  James  Galloway,  and  had  several 
children  ;  only  one  of  the  name,  David  Fulton  Shall  Galloway, 
who  married  May  Wesson,  represents  the  family  in  this 
parish ;  Elizabeth  Savin  Shall,  lives  unmarried  in  this  city. 
Jane  Fulton's  second  husband  was  Dr.  Holt,  surgeon  of  the 
expedition  sent  out  by  the  government  under  command  of 
Captain  B.  L.  E.  Bonneville,  IT.  S.  A.,  to  make  a  reconnois- 
sance  of  the  plain.*     jSTo  children. 

The  following  biography  of  James  Hervey  Otey,  whose 
name  is  a  household  word  in  Virginia,  Tennessee,  Arkansas, 


*See  Early  Days  in  Arkansas,  by  Win.  F.  Pope,  p.  152. 


60  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

Mississippi,  and  Florida,  and  his  pocket  diaries,  which  have 
been  transcribed,  Avill  be  read  with  especial  interest,  as  they 
develop  the  life  of  the  Church  and  its  founders : 


ET.  REV.  JAMES  HERVEY  OTEY,  D.  D. 

A.  D.  1800.  The  lit.  Rev.  James  Hervey  Otey,  D.  D.f 
the  first  Bishop  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  for  the 
Diocese  of  Tennessee,  was  born' on  the  27th  of  January,  1800, 
near  the  Peaks  of  Otter,  in  Bedford  County,  Ya.  He  was 
a  great  lover  of  mountain  scenery  and  cherished  a  special  affec- 
tion for  his  native  Peaks.  He  had,  after  he  became  a  Bishop, 
an  oil  painting  of  them  executed  and  presented  by  a  friend,  a 
local  artist.  His  eyes  sometimes  filled  with  tears  as  he  gazed 
upon  this  picture  and  thought  of  all  the  scenes  which  it  re- 
called. Here  he  grew  up  on  his  father's  farm  and  rendered 
some  assistance  in  its  work.  But  he  early  exhibited  an  inclin- 
ation for  study.  He  was  sent  to  what  was  generally  termed 
an  "old  field"  school ;  but  some  of  those  neighborhood  insti- 
tutions  were  very  good  ones.  Afterwards  he  entered  the 
Academy  at  New  London,  in  the  same  county,  which  has  gen- 
erally been  a  place  of  education  of  an  excellent  grade  from 
that  day  to  the  present.  There  he  made  preparation  for 
college  and  was  matriculated  in  the  University  of  North 
Carolina  in  his  sixteenth  year.  He  was  well  grown  and 
athletic  and  was  fond  of  outdoor  sports,  and  especially  of 
angling,  for  which  he  retained  his  love  all  his  life,  and  was 
a  great  admirer  of  Sir  Isaak  Walton.  He  was  also  attached 
to  his  violin,  on  which  he  became  quite  an  expert  performer. 
Thus  he  had  an  abundance  of  recreation,  though,  during  his 
vacations,  he  cheerfully  assisted  his  parents.  He  gave  up  his 
violin,  but  his  son,  Mercer,  still  has  it. 


RT.  REV.  JAMES  HERVEY  OTEY,   D.  D.,  LL.  D. 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  61 

LINEAGE. 

Bishop  Otey  was  one  of  the  younger  of  twelve  sons  and 
daughters  of  Isaac  Otey  and  Elizabeth  Mathews.*  Isaac  Otey 
was  a  well-to-do  farmer,  of  sterling  qualities  of  mind  and 
heart,  and  a  stern  regard  for  moral  principle,  which  he  was 
careful  to  instil  into  his  children.  He  was  the  representative 
of  his  people  in  the  Legislature  of  Virginia  for  about  thirty 
years,  and  as  a  State  Senator.,  was  so  attentive  to  all  appro- 
priations of  the  public  treasure  that  he  was  called  "the  Cer- 
berus of  the  Treasury."  His  wife  was  of  a  high  and  strong 
character  also,  and  his  worthy  helpmeet. 

A.  D.  1601-1613.  Isaac  was  the  son  of  John  Otey  and 
Mary  Hopkins.  The  Oteys  were,  on  both  sides,  of  good  old 
English  stock  and  settled  first  in  New  Kent  County.  John 
Otey  was  a  valiant  soldier  in  the  war  of  '70.  There  is  a 
credited  tradition  that  he,  when  the  British  had  obtained  pos- 
session of  the  Pamunky  River,  raised  a  company  at  his  own 
expense  and  captured  one  of  their  boats.  The  Hopkinses  go 
back  to  Sir  John  Petters,  Knight,  member  of  the  British  Par- 
liament for  Norwich,  A.  D.  1C01  and  1604-1611,  benefactor 
of  Norwich  Cathedral  and  subscriber  of  £25  (two  shares)  to 
the  Colony  of  Virginia,  of  which  he  was  one  of  the  founders. 
He  died  April  19,  1613. 

A.  D.  1 84-0.  Colonel  Thomas  Sellers,  one  of  his  descen- 
dants, settled  in  Virginia  in  1840.  His  daughter,  Elizabeth, 
married  Dr.  Arthur  Hopkins,  and  it  was  their  daughter, 
Mary,  who  married  John  Otey.       Hopkins  became  a  Chris- 


*William  Mathews,  father  of  Elizabeth  Mathews,  Bishop  Otey's  mother,  was  one 
of  the  seven  brothers  and  partakers  of  the  wars  of  that  period  (Indian.  Colonial, 
and  Revolutionary  i .  His  wife  was  named  Frances  Crowe.  Fhe  left  a  little  prayer 
book  to  her  children  with  the  words,  "Keep  steadfast  to  this  faith  once  delivered  to 
the  saints." 


62  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

tian  name  in  the  Otey  family  and  John  Hopkins  Otey,  of 
Franklin,  Tenn.,  married  one  of  Bishop  Otey's  sisters. 

One  of  James  Hervey  Otey's  intimates  at  the  University 
of  North  ( Carolina  was  William  Mercer  Green,  who  became  an 
Episcopal  clergyman,  a  professor  in  his  Alma  Mater  and  the 
Bishop  of  Mississippi.  He  has  published  a  memoir  of  his 
very  dear  friend,  Otey,  in  which  he  says :  "He  had  a  keen, 
dark  eye,  a  complexion  made  up  of  the  ruddy  and  the  brown, 
with  straight,  coal  black  hair,  and  the  striding  gait  of  the  true 
son  of  the  forest.  No  wonder  then  that  he  was  soon  dubbed 
with  the  nickname  of  'the  Cherokee.'  But  there  was  nothing 
vulgar  about  him."  This  "Cherokee"  developed  into  an  ex- 
ceedingly fine  looking  and  commanding  person,  in  stature 
over  6  feet.  One  of  his  lady  friends  was  once  pressing  him 
to  avow  whether  he  was  High  or  Low  Church.  He  arose, 
erected  himself  and  said:  "I  am  (J  feet  2  inches  without 
shoes."  He  never  would  admit  that  he  belonged  to  any 
party  in  the  Church,  but  only  claimed  to  be  "a  Churchman." 

A.  D.  1820.  His  career  at  Chapel  Hill  University  was 
bright  and  honorable,  and  he  was  graduated  with  high  honor 
in  1820,  receiving  the  title  of  "Bachelor  of  Belles  Lettres," 
the  first  time  it  was  conferred  by  that  institution,  an  evidence 
of  his  taste  and  culture.  Bishop  Green  remarks:  "Here 
may  be  seen  the  foundation  of  that  clear,  vigorous  and  correct 
style  which  marks  his  writings."  He  must  have  paid  special 
attention  to  the  precious  classics,  for  he  was  appointed  tutor 
of  Latin  and  Greek  in  the  university. 

A.  D.  1800-1821.  The  13th  of  October,  1821,  he  was 
married  to  Eliza  Davis  Pannill,  born  March  27,  1800,  very 
near  his  own  age.  She  was  the  blooming  daughter  of  William 
Pannill  and  his  wife,  with  whom  he  had  boarded  whilst  he 
was  a  student.       Her  father  and  mother  were  Virginians,  and 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  63 

prosperous,  but  owing  to  reverses  of  fortune,  removed  to 
North  Carolina.  He  was  the  third  William  Pannill,  of  Vir- 
ginia, and  was  related  to  the  Strothers,  Mortons,  Bankes,  and 
Eruces.  Mrs.  Otey  was  related  to  the  two  great  generals, 
Zachary  Taylor,  the  twelfth  president  of  the  United  States, 
and  J.  E.  B.  Stuart,  of  Confederate  fame.  The  Pannills 
can  go  back  to  the  Roll  of  Battle  Abbey.  At  the  University, 
Mr.  Otey,  as  a  tutor,  had  to  lead  the  morning  religious  exer- 
cises, and  to  offer  prayer,  in  which  he  had  had  no  practice, 
was  embarrassing.  A  lady  friend  presented  to  him  an  Epis- 
copal Prayer  Book,  which  not  only  relieved  his  embarrass- 
ment, but  enlisted  his  admiration  and  was  instrumental  in 
shaping  his  life.  Soon  after  his  marriage  he  removed  to 
Tennessee  and  was  about  to  open  a  school  at  Franklin,  Wil- 
liamson County,  when  he  was  induced  to  return  to  North  Caro- 
lina to  take  charge  at  Warrenton  of  an  academy,  which  was 
just  passing  out  of  the  hands  of  the  He  v.  G.  W.  Freeman,  who 
afterwards  became  Missionary  Bishop  of  Arkansas.  There 
he  was  baptized  by  his  warm  friend,  Rev.  William  Mercer 
Green,  Rector  of  that  parish,  and  confirmed  by  Bishop 
Ravenscroft. 

A.  D.  1825-1827.  Whilst  engaged  in  teaching,  he  pur- 
sued his  theological  studies,  and  was  on  the  10th  of  October, 
1825.  ordained  a  Deacon,  and  on  June  7,  1827,  a  Priest,  by 
Bishop  Ravenscroft,  for  whom  he  always  cherished  great 
affection  and  veneration.  He  returned  to  Franklin,  Tenn., 
took  charge  of  Harpeth  Academy  and  preached  in  the 
Masonic  Hall.  He  was  a  Mason  and  had  attained  a  high 
degree  in  that  order.  In  Warrenton  he  had  under  his  in- 
struction Gen.  Braxton  Bragg  and  his  brother,  the  judge,  and 
in  Franklin,  the  world  renowned  Matthew  Fontaine  Maury. 
For  eight  years  he  led  a  hard  and  laborious  life,  as  teacher, 


64  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

minister  and  missionary.  There  was  only  one  clergyman  to 
aid  him — Rev.  John  Davis,  a  Deacon,  sent  out  by  a  Mission- 
ary Societv  in  the  North. 

A.  D.  1829-1831.  In  1829  he  had  the  pleasure  and 
encouragement  of  a  visit  from  Bishop  Ravenscroft.  The 
Diocese  of  Tennessee  was  organized  in  Nashville,  July  1, 
1829,  and  in  1830  Bishop  Meade,  of  Virginia,  held  a  conven- 
tion there.  In  1831  Bishop  Ives,  of  North  Carolina,  visited 
the  Diocese,  and  in  that  year  the  Rev.  J.  H.  Otey  was  called 
to  weep  over  the  death  of  his  oldest  son,  Reginald  Heber. 

A.  D.  1833-1834.  In  1833  there  were  five  Presbyters 
and  one  Deacon  in  the  Diocese.  The  necessity  for  a  Bishop 
was  seriously  felt,  and  a  convention  was  held,  partly  for  the 
purpose  of  electing  one,  in  Franklin,  June  27,  1833,  and 
Rev.  J.  II.  Otey  was  chosen.  He  was  consecrated  in  Christ 
Church,  Philadelphia,  on  the  14th  of  January,  1834.  The 
Venerable  Bishop  White  was  the  Consecrator  and  was  assisted 
by  the  brothers  Onderdonk  and  Bishop  Doane,  who  preached 
the  sermon.  Bishop  Otey  was  then  just  34  years  old  and 
proved  to  be  one  of  the  great  and  commanding  members  of 
the  American  Episcopate.  About  this  time  he  was  greatly 
reinforced  by  the  arrival  of  the  Rev.  Leonidas  Polk,  who 
became  Rector  of  St.  Peter's  Church,  Columbia,  Maury 
County,  Tenn. 

A.  D.  1834-1836.  Bishop  Otey  had  long  been  prac- 
tically, as  well  as  theoretically,  a  friend  of  education  and  had 
commenced  advocating  it  publicly  as  early  as  1832.  One  of 
the  first  acts  of  his  Episcopate  was  to  urge  it  before  his  con- 
vention in  Columbia,  June,  1834.  His  plan  always  was  to 
establish  good  schools  for  both  sexes,  and  to  have  a  college, 
which   would    embrace   the    preparation  of  ministers    of   the 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  65 

gospel.  lie  was  strongly  in  favor  of  a  native  ministry  so  far 
as  it  could  be  obtained.  It  was  not  lung  before  he  conceived 
the  idea  of  the  Female  Institute  in  Columbia,  which  was 
opened  in  1836.  In  this  he  was  warmly  aided  by  Rev. 
Leonidas  Polk,  and  his  brothers,  who  were  men  of  wealth  and 
liberality.  It  was,  however,  a  difficult  task  to  raise  all  the 
funds  which  such  an  institution  needed,  but  he  stood  firmly 
by  it,  and  by  his  own  efforts  obtained,  outside  of  the  Diocese, 
from  Boston  and  ^New  Orleans,  a  large,  if  not  the  larger  part 
of  the  means  necessary  for  its  erection  and  continuance.  Be- 
sides being  its  visitor,  he  was  one  of  its  instructors.  He  also 
established  "Mercer  Hall"  at  his  residence  near  Columbia 
and  tried  to  establish  "Ravenscroft  College,"  and  induced  the 
Rev.  John  Thomas  Wheat,  D.  D.,  to  resign  the  Rectorship  of 
his  Church  in  Xashville  to  take  charge  of  that  college,  but 
this  enterprise  did  not  succeed. 

A.  D.  1837-1860.  Bishop  Otey  was  also  the  originator 
of  the  germ  of  "The  University  of  the  South,"  now  in  opera- 
tion at  Sewanee,  Tenn.  The  views  which  he  had  so  often 
and  earnestly  presented  to  his  Church  friends,  both  in  Ten- 
nessee and  Mississippi,  were  at  last  embodied  in  a  charter, 
which  he  obtained  in  1837,  for  Madison  University,  to  be 
situated  at  Jackson,  Tenn.,  but  to  be  for  the  three  States  of 
Tennessee,  Mississippi,  and  Louisiana.  His  warm  friend 
and  colaborer,  Rev.  Leonidas  Polk,  was  one  of  the  corporators, 
and  undertook  to  visit  the  South  for  the  purpose  of  obtaining 
funds  for  that  university,  but  was  prevented  from  carrying 
out  his  plans  by  the  financial  crisis  of  that  year.  Bishop 
Otey  made  various  addresses  in  different  parts  of  the  Dio- 
cese and  obtained  some  liberal  subscriptions,  but  his  hopes 
were  again  disappointed.  Years  afterwards,  under  more 
favorable  circumstances  and  in  a  very  different  condition  of 


66  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

affairs,  in  both  the  Church  and  the  country,  from  1837  to 
1860,  Bishop  Polk  very  naturally  and  properly  expanded  the 
former  plan,  so  as  to  make  it  embrace  all  the  Southern  Dio- 
ceses. An  autograph  letter  of  Rev.  James  H.  Otey  to  Thomas 
Adams,  Esquire,  of  New  Orleans,  explains  this  plan : 

Memphis,  January  0,  1862. 

Thomas  Adams,  Esquire,  New  Orleans: 

Dear  Sir — The  following  resolution  was  passed  unani- 
mously by  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  University  of  the 
South,  at  the  late  meeting  at  Charleston,  S.  C,  to-wit: 

"Resolved,  That  the  president  of  the  board  be  requested 
to  inform  Thos.  Adams,  Esquire,  that  the  trustees  accede  to 
his  proposal  to  raise  $25,000  by  subscription  for  building  pur- 
poses, and  duly  appreciate  the  interest  expressed  by  him  in 
behalf  of  the  University." 

I  need  not  say  how  much  the  friends  of  education  gen- 
erally and  the  favorers  of  our  enterprise  in  particular  will  be 
gratified  by  the  successful  accomplishment  of  the  plan  sug- 
gested by  you.  That  plan,  if  I  understood  it  correctly,  was 
for  the  citizens  of  each  of  the  States  concerned  in  the  Uni- 
versity to  provide  each  a  building  at  Sewanee  by  contributions 
in  their  States  respectively,  as  Louisiana  one,  Mississippi 
one,  etc.  We  shall  be  truly  thankful  to  you  if  you  can  in- 
augurate a  scheme  which  promises  such  happy  results  by  suc- 
cessful application  in  Louisiana.  If  you  are  asked  for  any 
authority  to  raise  funds  in  behalf  of  the  University,  the  above 
resolution  will  be  regarded  as  furnishing  ample  power. 

With  the  salutation  of  the  season  to  yourself  and  Mrs. 
Adams  and  the  expression  of  the  hope  of  seeing  you  on  the 
mountain  next  summer,  I  remain,  very  respectfully, 
Your  friend  and  obedient  servant, 

JAS.  H.  OTEY.* 


♦Copied  from  the  original  by  the  annalist. 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  67 

A.  D.  1835-1844.  In  December,  1835,  Bishop  Otey 
re:noved  from  Franklin  to  the  vicinity  of  Columbia,  so  as  to 
be  nearer  the  Female  Institute,  that  he  might  watch  over  it 
and  place  his  daughters  in  it.  He  afterwards  removed  into 
the  town  and  again,  a  little  out  of  it,  to  "Mercer  Hall,"  which 
he  opened  for  students.  He  had  the  pleasure  of  preparing 
for  the  ministry  of  the  Church  several  promising  young  men. 

In  1838  Rev.  Leonidas  Polk  was  elected  Missionary 
Bishop  of  Arkansas,  and  Bishop  Otey  succeeded  him  as 
Rector  of  St.  Peter's.  This  only  increased  his  Herculean 
task,  but  he  felt  constrained  to  accept  the  proffered  position. 
The  resources  of  the  Diocese  were  then  very  meagre.  In 
1841  Bishop  Polk  was  elected  Bishop  of  Louisiana,  and  the 
missionary  work  in  Arkansas  was,  by  the  General  Conven- 
tion, assigned  to  Bishop  Otey,  who  was,  most  probably,  the 
grandest  missionary  in  spirit,  zeal  and  actual  labors,  that  the 
Church  has  ever  had.  His  own  Diocese  was  but  a  missionary 
field,  a  good  part  of  his  life.  Shortly  after  his  consecration 
the  friends  of  the  Church  in  Mississippi  besought  his  assist- 
ance, and  he  afterwards  became  their  provisional  Bishop.  At 
the  request  of  the  General  Convention,  he  made  a  visitation 
of  Florida.  His  efforts  in  Arkansas  and  the  Indian  Ter- 
ritory were  the  more  difficult  and  trying  on  account  of  roads 
and  the  means  of  locomotion,  wherever  steamboats  could  not 
be  used.  How  he  had  to  get  along  is  shown  by  a  letter  from 
him  to  his  friend,  Mr.  Wm.  C.  Hopkins,  of  North  Carolina, 
which  is  to  be  found  in  Bishop  Green's  memoir.  He  made 
full  reports  to  the  members  of  the  Board  of  Missions,  who 
published  them  in  their  organ,  "The  Spirit  of  Missions."  In 
1844  he  was  compelled  to  resign  this  jurisdiction.  One  result 
of  his  services  to  the  Church  in  Mississippi  was  the  close 
friendship  of  Dr.  William  Newton  Mercer.       This  estimable 


68  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

and  elegant  gentleman  was  a  wealthy  and  cultured  planter 
near  Natchez,  but  had  a  fine  winter  residence  in  Xew  Orleans, 
where  also  the  Bishop  was  his  honored  and  welcome  guest. 
Dr.  Mercer  was  also  a  great  friend  of  the  Hon.  Henry  Clay, 
and  on  one  occasion  he  entertained  Mr.  Clay  and  the  Bishop 
at  the  same  time.  When  Mr.  Clay's  son  and  namesake  was 
killed  in  the  Mexican  war,  and  the  sad  intelligence  reached 
New  Orleans  Bishop  Otey  happened  to  be  there,  at  Dr.  Mer- 
cer's, and  was  requested  to  write  to  Mr.  Clay  on  the  heart- 
rending subject.  The  Bishop  put  his  own  heart  in  that 
mournful  epistle  and  it  is  thought  that  it  had  some  instru- 
mentality in  bringing  the  great  orator  and  statesman  into  the 
Church.  Bishop  Otey  named  for  Dr.  Mercer  his  residence 
and  school,  near  Columbia,  and  also  his  youngest  child,  who 
is  still  living  at  Oakland,  Cal.,  and  doing  business  in  San 
Francisco.  Dr.  Mercer  was  very  liberal  and  took  him  to 
Europe.  The  Bishop  had  an  earnest  desire  to  explore  the 
Holy  Land  of  Palestine  and  would  have  gratified  it,  but  Dr. 
Mercer  was  afflicted  with  the  death,  in  Paris,  of  his  idolized 
daughter,  an  only  child,  and  the  Bishop  gave  up  all  idea  of 
any  further  travel  and  returned  with  his  friend  and  his 
precious  remains  to  the  United  States. 

A.  D.  1851-1863.  Bishop  Otey's  constitution  and  gen- 
eral physique  wrere  strong  and  vigorous,  but  at  last  gave  way 
under  the  character  and  extent  of  his  devoted  labors  and  he 
went  to  Europe  in  1851  for  health  and  recreation  and  made 
trial  of  the  water  cure  at  Malvern,  in  England.  The  Rev. 
Arthur  Cleveland  Coxe,  D.  D.,  since  Bishop  of  the  Diocese  of 
Buffalo,  in  New  York,  met  with  him  in  his  travels  and  gives 
an  interesting  account  of  him.  He  attached  Mr.  Coxe  to  him- 
self, as  he  did  everyone  else.  Mr.  Coxe  says  that  the  Bishop's- 
health  manifestly  improved  from  the  time  that  he  took  with 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  69 

him  an  early  morning  bath  in  the  Baltic  Sea.  They  sang 
together  at  the  Bishop's  suggestion  ''Old  Hundred"  in  Fin- 
gal's  Cave.  The  Bishop  made  a  stirring  missionary  speech 
before  a  meeting  over  which  the  Prince  Consort  of  England 
presided.  This  interesting  and  appreciative  sketch  by  the 
Rev.  .Mr.  Coxe  is  in  the  appendix  to  Bishop  Green's  Memoir. 
Whatever  of  Bishop  Otey's  views  of  the  Southern  Confeder- 
ate war  were,  at  its  commencement,  and  his  letter  to  Hon. 
W.  IT.  Seward  shows  how  he  deprecated  it,  he  became  a  warm 
sympathizer  with  the  South ;  and  one  of  the  late  acts  of  his 
noble  life  was  the  writing  of  that  encouraging  letter  to  Gen- 
eral Leonidas  Polk,  whose  mind  was  disturbed  about  his  posi- 
tion in  the  Confederate  Army.  Bishop  Otey  remained  at 
his  home  in  Memphis  during  the  war  and  died  there,  before 
General  Polk  was  killed,  April  23,  1863,  aged  over  63  years. 
His  two  sons  were  in  the  Confederate  army.  Two  of  his 
daughters  were  with  him,  and  his  eldest  daughter  and  her 
husband  tried  to  get  there  from  Columbia,  Mo.,  but  were  too 
late.  His  remains  had  already  been  consigned  to  the  vault 
of  a  friend.  They  have  since  been  interred  at  Ashwood, 
near  Columbia,  Tenn.,  where  there  are  an  Episcopal  Church 
and  a  cemetery." 

The  foregoing  sketch  of  Rt.  Rev.  James  Hervey  Otey, 
D.  D.,  first  Bishop  of  the  Diocese  of  Tennessee,  and  provis- 
ional Missionary  Bishop  of  Arkansas  after  Bishop  Polk's 
resignation,  was  kindly  furnished  at  the  request  of  the 
annalist,  by  B.  B.  Minor,  M.  D.  LL.  D.,  of  Richmond,  Va.f 
who,  at  the  time  of  writing,  is  beyond  "three  score  and  ten 
years,"  but  whose  pen  has  lost  none  of  the  polish  of  the 
former  distinguished  lawyer,  professor  and  journalist,  nor 
the  reverent  grace  of  the  Churchman.       As    it    is.    without 


*St.  John's  Church,  Ashwood. 
tSon-in-law  of  Bishop  Otey. 


70  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

question,  a  faithful,  trustworthy,  though  brief  abstract  of  the 
life  of  the  great  man,  who,  throughout  the  South  and  South- 
west, bore  the  title  of  "the  good  Bishop,"  and  thus  furnishes 
a  valuable  introduction  to  his  work  as  a  missionary  in  Arkan- 
sas, it  is  here  given  intact.  There  are  yet  many  in  the  Diocese 
who  will  read  the  sketch  with  personal  and  affectionate 
interest. 

A.  D.  1 842.  After  Bishop  Otey's  death  there  was  found 
among  his  papers  a  written  request  to  him  to  consecrate  the 
first  Episcopal  Church  of  Little  Rock,  Ark.,  dated  Novem- 
ber 27,  1842.  This  paper  bears  the  signatures  of  John  H. 
Crease,  Luke  E.  Barber,  Wardens,  and  the  following  Vestry- 
men :  Lambert  Reardon,  Sr.,  Charles  Rapley,  John  Hutt, 
J.  P.  Norman,  John  Adamson,  L.  J.  Reardon,  F.  W.  Trap- 
nail,  D.  Butler,  John  Wassell,  Wm.  Prather. 

A.  D.  1841-1842.  The  Bishop's  first  visitation  was 
made  in  1841,  and  the  services  were  held  in  the  same  old 
Presbyterian  Church,  on  Main  and  Second  (or  Cherry) 
streets,  that  had  been  proffered  to  Bishop  Polk,  where  he 
baptized  and  confirmed  the  members  of  the  first  congregation. 
At  Bishop  Otey's  visitation  in  1842  he  confirmed  a  large  class, 
among  whom  were  Mrs.  Reardon,  Sr.,  and  her  deaughters. 
Among  the  first  infants  baptized  were  Lambert  Wait,  Ben 
Field,  and  Buckner  Reardon.  A  contract  for  the  building 
of  the  Church  was  made  by  Mr.  Lambert  Reardon,  Sr.,  with 
Messrs.  Robins  and  Morrison.  Bishop  Otey's  zeal  was  infec- 
tious. The  Senior  Warden  and  his  wife,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Crease,  nobly  sustained  him.  Mrs.  Crease  collected  the  ladies 
of  the  infant  parish  together  and  there  was  earnest  discus- 
sion of  ways  and  means  for  erecting  the  house  of  worship.  It 
was  resolved  to  hold  "a  fair"  and  thereafter  all  worked  with 
one  consent  to  supply  articles  for  merchandise.       How  happy 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  71 

they  were  in  their  hallowed  undertaking !  What  germs  of 
holy  friendship  were  then  sown,  whose  harvest  is  being 
reaped  to-day !  This  fair  was  held  in  a  large  hall  over  the 
market  house  at  the  foot  of  Main  street,  near  the  river,  and 
proved  a  great  success,  yielding  $1,500  with  net  profits  of 
$1,106.50.  The  Church  building  was  begun  and  completed. 
Bishop  Otey's  memory  is  indelibly  connected  with  its  progress 
by  the  old  Church  people.  These  were  Judge  William 
Hume  Field's  family,  who  had  known  him  in  Tennessee,  the 
Waits,  Popes,  ITutts,  Adamses,  Weavers,  Merricks,.and  Pikes, 
in  addition  to  those  already  mentioned. 

To  Mrs.  Donna  Otey  Compton,  of  Washington,  D.  C, 
the  youngest  surviving  daughter  of  Bishop  Otey,  the  annalist 
is  indebted  for  the  loan  of  his  pocket  diaries,  giving  accounts 
of  his  tour  through  the  missionary  district  of  Arkansas,  from 
the  leaves  of  which  a  faithful  transcript  is  here  given.1  Being 
herself  an  accomplished  writer  as  well  as  a  profoundly  rever- 
ent and  loving  daughter,  Mrs.  Compton  has  also  submitted  for 
private  inspection  a  graceful  personal  sketch  of  the  Bishop,  to- 
gether with  other  letters  and  papers  concerning  him,  of  great 
interest  to  the  Church  and  the  annalist,  but  nothing  can  so 
well  put  the  heroic  missionary  before  the  ecclesiastical  world 
as  his  own  earnest,  single-hearted  chronicle  of  his  daily  effort 
and  progress  in  the  cause  of  Christ.  While  the  opening 
campaign  of  the  wrar  with  Spain  for  the  independence  of 
Cuba  was  in  startling  progress,2  and  the  glowing  details  were 
passing  under  the  eager  eyes  of  interested  nations,  the  writer 
turned  from  the  newspaper  columns  to  the  brief  pages  of  this 
little  diary  with  the  consciousness  that,  glorious  and  thrilling 
as  were  the  deeds  of  our  sailors  and  soldiers  and  their  gallant 


1.  Diaries  received  from  Mrs.  Compton.  July  13,  1898. 

2.  War   declared   April  21  ;    May   1.   opening  engagement   of   the  two   fleets 
in   Manila  Bay. 


72  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

commanders  in  the  cause  of  war  for  humanity's  sake,  here 
was  a  hero  greater  than  they,  who,  in  the  cause  of  peace  and 
righteousness,  had  left  behind  these  footsteps,  which 

"Remind  us 
We  can  make  our  lives  sublime;" 

and  when  it  is  remembered  that  Tennessee,  Mississippi,  and 
Florida  can  bear  similar  witness  to  his  zeal,  it  is  in  solemn 
choral  that  we  of  the  South  unite  in  doing  honor  to  "the  great 
missionary."  In  the  words  of  the  prophets  "How  beautiful 
upon  the  mountains  are  the  feet  of  him  that  bringeth  good 
tidings,  that  publisheth  peace ;  that  bringeth  good  tidings  of 
good;  that  publisheth  salvation;  that  saith  unto  Zion,  thy 
God  reigneth." 

A.  D.  1842.  February  22,  Tuesday.  Montgomery's 
Point,  Mississippi  River.  The  Rialto  is  here  this  morning 
for  Little  Rock.  Settle  my  tavern  bill,  which  for  three  days 
is  $6.  *  *  *  Rialto  arrived  at  dark.  Go  aboard  and 
find  Colonel  Jos.  W.  Clay  and  family  going  up  Arkansas. 
*  *  *  The  Rialto  leaves  Montgomery  Point  about  11 
p.  m. ;  passes  over  to  Victoria  and  leaves  immediately  for 
White  River  and  the  Arkansas. 

Wednesday,  23.  Awake  this  morning  ascending  the 
Arkansas.  Land  on  each  side  low  and  liable  to  overflow. 
Arrive  at  Mr.  Clay's,  about  seventeen  miles  above  the  Post  of 
Arkansas.  The  farm  or  cotton  plantation  is  a  beautiful  one, 
reminding  me  much  of  the  coast  of  the  Mississippi,  below 
Natchez.  *  *  *  Pass  some  fine  looking  plantations  on 
the  river,  particularly  McLean's,  Harrison  Douglass's,  Dye's, 
and  L.  C.  Taylor's.  '     Reach  Pine    Bluff    at  3  o'clock  a.  m. 

Thursday,  24.  Arrived  at  Little  Rock,  7  :30  p.  m.,  and 
went  to  the  Anthony  House.  Pound  there  Mr.  C.  A.  Harris 
and  family.  Mr.  Harris  sick  abed,  but  convalescent.  Paid 
passage  on  Rialto,  $10.       Paid  for  trunk  to  hotel,  25  cents. 


Extracts  from  diaries  should  be  read  with  an  atlas. 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  73 

Friday,  25.  Slept  comfortably  last  night.  *  *  * 
At  breakfast  find  that  Mr.  Anthony,  the  proprietor,  is  from 
Bedford,  Ya.  Sent  last  night  by  Mr.  Meigs  two  Prayer 
Books  to  the  little  Miss  Nairs  in  the  Indian  Nation.  Went 
out  to  see  Rev.  Mr.  Yeager,  whom  I  found  at  home.  Went 
with  him  and  visited  the  Church,  a  brick  edifice  with  organ 
gallery,  floors  laid,  pews  yet  to  be  made,  pulpit  and  the  walls 
to  be  plastered  and  house  painted ;  will  accommodate,  when 
finished,  300  or  400  people.  Called  on  Mr.  Trapnell  and 
delivered  Dr.  Greenfield's  letter  and  take  his  receipt  for  three 
notes  left  with  him  for  collection.  Meet  with  Mr.  Jeffreys 
and  Mr.  Haraklson.  Go  to  Mr.  Reardon's  and  take  up  my 
quarters  there  by  his  invitation.  Many  persons  call  in  the 
afternoon — Colonel  Ashley  and  lady,  Mr.  Grubb,  Mrs.  Rear- 
don,  Jr.,  and  Lawyer  W.  O.  Perkins. 

February  2G.  At  night  Mr.  Yeager  read  prayers,  after 
which  I  preached  to  a  large  and  apparently  interested  congre- 
gation. Returned  to  lodgings,  the  night  being  beautiful  and 
bright  with  moonlight.  *  *  *  Many  persons  called  this 
forenoon  and  among  them  a  Mr.  Stewart,  a  Methodist 
preacher,  holding  letters  or  orders  from  Dr.  Thos.  Coke.  He 
is  seeking  orders  in  the  Episcopal  Church  and  had  applied 
to  Bishop  Kemper,  to  whom  I  referred  him,  with  the  assur- 
ance that  I  could  do  nothing  for  him.  Called  on  Mr.  Sutton, 
who  is  very  ill ;  communed  and  prayed  with  him.  Called  at 
Dr.  Yeager's.  Went  to  steamboat  landing  and  engaged 
passage  on  the  Corvette  for  next  Tuesday.  Called  at  Colonel 
Ashley's,  at  Mr.  Anthony's,  at  Mr.  Jeffrey's,  and  at  Dr.  Nor- 
man's. At  night,  after  prayers  by  Dr.  Yeager,  I  preached 
t<~>  a  full  house — very  attentive  congregation  throughout. 

Sunday,  February  27.  After  prayer  this  morning  I 
baptized  Lambert  Reardon,  son  of  WTm.  B.  WTait  and  Lavinia 
Wait;  Simeon  Buclcner,  son  of  Lambert  and  Priscilla  Rear- 
don; John  Henry,  son  of  Jno.  W.  and  Margaret  Johnston, 
and  Clara,  Ophelia,  daughter  of  Rev.  Mr.  Yeager  and  his 
wife.  Preached  to  a  large  congregation.  At  night,  not- 
withstanding the  weather  was   inclement,   after  prayers  by 


74  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

Mr.  Yeager,  I  preached  to  a  good  congregation — very  hoarse, 
and  breast  oppressed.  This  afternoon  became  acquainted 
with  Dr.  Desha  and  wife.  Dr.  Desha  is  a  son  of  the  former 
governor  of  Kentucky. 

Monday,  28.  Weather  warm  and  cloudy,  threatening 
rain ;  hoarseness  increased.  Write  letters  to  Rev.  Mr.  Scull 
and  Rev.  Mr.  Carder.  Called  on  Mr.  Sutton  with  Dr.  Yea- 
ger, and  again  prayed  with  him.  Dined  at  Judge  Casseen's.* 
Called  at  hotel  to  see  Mr.  Harris,  at  Mr.  Jeffrey's,  and  took 
tea  at  Mrs.  Crise's.f  At  night,  after  prayers  by  Mr.  Yeager, 
preached  to  a  large  congregation. 

Tuesday,  March  1.  Weather  warm  and  cloudy.  *  *  * 
Report  in  town  that  the  government  Moorehead  steamboat 
has  been  blown  up  and  several  citizens  of  this  place  on  her 
killed !  Dined  at  Mr.  Anthony's  and  at  4  o'clock  went  to 
Dr.  Norman's  to  meet  the  Vestry,  only  three  of  whom,  Dr. 
Norman,  Mr.  Grubb,  and  Mr.  Reardon,  with  Rev.  Mr.  Yea- 
ger, were  present,  in  consequence,,  probably,  of  a  storm  of 
rain,  thunder  and  lightning.  I  advised  the  Vestry  by  all 
means  to  recommend  a  reduction  of  their  present  number 
(twelve)  to  seven  at  their  next  election.  I  told  them  further- 
more, that  the  subscriptions  made  for  the  support  of  the 
minister  ought  and  must  be  collected  by  the  Vestry  and  not 
by  the  minister ;  that  care  must  be  taken  to  have  money  mat- 
ters between  them  and  minister,  especially,  entirely  straight 
and  easy ;  that  they  might  do  much  themselves  by  reminding 
others  of  their  duty;  that  religious  services  were  a  public 
benefit,  etc. 

Wednesday.     I  stayed  at  house  nearly  all  day.    *    *    * 

Thursday,  March  3.  *  *  ""  The  Corvette  steamer 
came  down  the  river  this  morning  and  I  go  on  board  of  her 
on  my  return. 

The  diary  then  notes  the  course  of  the  Bishop  through 
Mississippi  and  again,  in  November,  of  1S42,  we  find  him 
in  Arkansas  and  Indian  Territorv. 


♦Causine's. 
-[Crease's. 


THE    ANNALS    OP    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  75 

A.  D.  1842.  Wednesday,  November  16.  Left  Kev. 
Mr.  Scull's  (Fayetteville)  this  morning.  Very  misty  and 
raining.  Pass  through  some  fine  farming  land ;  prairie  coun- 
try. Saw  a  fine  deer,  numerous  partridges,  larks  without 
number.  Arrived  at  General  Campbell's,  on  Canehill,  in 
company  with  Dr.  Yeager  and  Mr.  Paradise,  about  2  p.  m. 
Very  cold  and  covered  with  mud.      *'    *     * 

Monday,  November  21. — Left  Evansville  this  morning 
and  rode  to  Van  Buren,  thirty-three  miles.  Some  good  arable 
land ;  natural  dam  on  Lee  Creek ;  fine  mountain  scenery. 
Stop  at  Mr.  Duval's.  Put  up  at  Colonel  Drennen's.  Meet 
Mrs.  Clemm,  just  from  Tennessee.  Dr.  Yeager  reads  prayer 
and  I  preach.      Congregation  good. 

Tuesday,  November  22.  Breakfast  and  dine  at  Major 
Dillard's.  Leave  and  ride  fifteen  miles  to  Major  B.  Moore's, 
which  we  reach  long  after  dark.  Buy  buffalo  robe  at  Van 
Buren  for  $-1.50.  Very  disagreeable  ride  through  woods,  fol- 
lowing small  trail.  Much  company.  Mr.  Gregg  and  family 
and  others  at  Major  Moore's. 

Wednesday,  November  23.  Left  Major  Moore's  late 
this  morning  and  ride  to  Mrs.  McLeland's,  twenty-five  miles. 
Weather  again  excessively  cold — weary !  !  ! 

Thursday ',  November  21.  Left  Mrs.  McLeland's  this 
morning  before  sunrise.  Very  heavy  frost  and  weather  dis- 
tressingly severe.  Mr.  llintsen  keeps  house  for  Mrs.  Mc- 
Leland,  whose  daughter  he  married.  Mrs.  McLeland  is  a 
sister  of  Colonel  Geo.  Sevier,  near  jSTashville.  We  rode 
rapidly  to-day  and  crossed  the  Arkansas  at  Dardanelle  before 
sundown,  and  came  on  to  Swing's  early.  Bill,  $1  apiece,  $3. 
Saw  four  deer  near  the  road  ;  also  a  flock  of  turkeys.  Arrived 
at  Allen's,  near  Cadron,  before  sundown,  thirty-six  miles. 
Ferriage  at  Dardanelle,  75  cents;  at  Point  Remove,  37-J- 
cents— $1.12$. 

Saturday,  November  26.  Left  Cadron  before  sunrise. 
Bill,  etc.,  $3.  Rain  in  the  morning.  Saw  a  fine  doer. 
Reach  Little  Rock  thirty-eight  minutes  before  sundown,  and 
fctop  at  Mr.  Trapnall's. 


76  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

Sunday,  November  27.  Morning  prayer  by  Mr.  Scull ; 
lessons  by  Dr.  Yeager.  Consecrated  Christ  Church  and 
preach  ;  congregation  large.  At  night  prayers  by  Scull ;  les- 
sons by  Yeager;  sermon  by  myself.  Weather  very  cold. 
Letter  last  evening  from  Dr.  Anthon. 

Monday,  November  28.  Wrote  letters  to-day  to  Dr. 
Mitchell,  Dr.  Freeman,  Dr.  Anthon,  Mr.  Goodman  and  to 
wife.  Paid  Mr.  Scull  for  traveling  expenses — $10.  Was 
waited  upon  by  a  committee  of  the  Legislature  with  a  request 
to  deliver  an  address  on  education,  which  I  agreed  to  do.  At 
night  Dr.  Yeager  read  prayers  and  Rev.  Mr.  Scull  preached. 

Tuesday  November  21).  Wrote  to  the  legislative  com- 
mittee, appointing  11  o'clock  to-morrow  to  deliver  an  address. 
Weather  gloomy  and  lowering.  Dined  at  Major  Butler's. 
Governor  Yell,  Captain  Xorman  and  others  present.  At 
night,  after  prayers  by  Dr.  Yeager,  I  preached. 

Wednesday,  November  30.  Dined  to-day  at  Mr.  Rear- 
don's.  Called  at  Mr.  Dunn's  and  at  Mr.  Crease's.  At 
night  Dr.  Yeager  read  prayers  and  I  preached.  Congrega- 
tion pretty  large.      Weather  is  clear  and  cool. 

Thursday,  December  1.  Went  to  the  Hall  of  Represen- 
tatives to-day  and  delivered  an  address  on  education.  Well 
received.  Dr.  Powel  muttered  and  mouthed  and  finally  got 
up  and  left  the  room.  Dined  at  Judge  Causine's.  Called 
at  Mr.  Rapley's,  Colonel  Ashley's  and  took  tea  at  Mr.  Dunn's. 
At  night  Dr.  Yeager  read  prayers  and  I  preached  on  the 
Apostolical  Succession. 

Friday,  December  2.  Went  to  Hall  of  Representatives 
and  Senate  Chamber,  called  on  General  Conway.  Our  Dr. 
Yeager  very  sick.  Met  Vestry.  Adjourned  to  to-morrow 
at  10  a.  m.  At  night  read  prayers  and  baptized  the  follow- 
ing adults:  (1)  Ann  Reardon,  (2)  Priscilla  Reardon,  (3) 
Martha  Lavinia'Wait,  (4)  Helen  Jane  Scott,  (5)  Jno.  Ed- 
mund Reardon,  and  (6)  Judith  Ellen  Field;  and  the  follow- 
ing children:  (1)  Daniel  Walter  Ringo,  (2)  Richard  Wat- 
kins  Ringo,  (3)  Mary  Frances  Ringo,  (4)  William  Field 
Rapley,  (5)  Laura  Letitia  Rapley,   (6)  Ben  Johnson  Field, 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  77 

(7)  Laura  Virginia  Adamson,  and  (8)  Laura  Crease;  after 
which  1  addressed  the  congregation,  which  was  large,  on  con- 
firmation. 

Sa&urday,  December  3.  Met  the  Vestry  this  morning. 
They  passed  a  resolution,  granting  Dr.  Yeager  leave  of 
absence  three  months  after  the  1st  of  April,  1843.  Appointed 
a  committee  to  provide  Dr.  Yeager  and  family  boarding  and 
pay  his  servant  hire  till  next  April,  and  the  eight  present 
agreed  to  lend  $25  apiece  to  the  Church  to  pay  Mr.  Crease's 
debt.  Dined  at  Mr.  Crease's.  At  night  read  prayers  and 
preached. 

Sunday,  December  4.  Read  Morning  Prayer  and  Ante- 
Communion  ;  preached  and  confirmed  thirteen  persons:  (1) 
Captain  J.  A.  L.  Norman,  (2)  Wm.  C.  Scott,  (3)  Mrs.  M.  L. 
Wait,  (4)  Mrs.  H.  J.  Scott,  (5)  Mrs.  Ann  Reardon,  ((»)  Mrs. 
John  Adamson,  (7)  Mrs.  Priscilla  Reardon,  (8)  Mrs.  Mary 
Watkins,  (9)  Miss  C.  Crease,  (10)  Mrs.  Judge  Ilutt,  (11) 
Judge  Ilutt,  (12)  Colonel  Williamson  Oldham,  (13)  Robert 
Clements.  At  night  read  prayers  and  preached  to  a  large 
congregation.        Weather  warm. 

Monday,  December  5.  Grant  commission  as  lay  reader 
to  Mr.  Jno.  A.  L.  Xorman.  At  night  read  prayers,  baptized 
John  Field  and  Mary  Elizabeth,  children  of  Judge  Jno.  Hutt 
and  wife;  preached  and  confirmed  five  persons:  (1)  Philip 
L.  Anthony,  (2)  Mrs.  Mary  Ann  Rinc;o,  (3)  Mrs.  David 
Butler,  (4)  Mrs.  Jane  Crease,  and  (5)  Miss  Harriet  Dickin- 
son.    Tea  at  L.  Reardon's. 

Tuesday,  December  G.  Staid  all  night  at  Anthony 
House.  Mr.  Crease  called  early  and  gave  me  a  packet  of 
letters  to  mail  at  Memphis.  Left  in  the  stage  at  8  o'clock 
a.  m.,  it  raining  hard,  which  continued  all  day;  nine  passen- 
gers in  company.  Captain  Rogers,  of  Cherokee  Nation, 
being  one,  a  very  large  helpless  man.  Stage  came  near 
upsetting  at  the  river  in  entering  ferryboat ;  driver  was 
thrown  off.  Paid  for  fare  on  the  road  to-day,  $1.50. 
Reached  Rock  Row  at  0  p.  m.  Stage  leaked  badly  and  we 
were  all  uncomfortable  and  wet.      Found  several  great  rowdies 


78  THE    ANNALS    OP    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

at  Rock  Row,  blasphemous  and  profane  wretches.  Retired  to 
bed  and  young  Rogers,  the  Indian,  presently  turned  in  with 
me.  Before  we  were  composed  for  sleep  we  were  aroused 
by  the  arrival  of  the  mail  boat ;  walked  to  the  river,  a  quarter 
of  a  mile  off,  in  the  rain  and  mud  up  to  the  legs,  went  aboard 
and  got  to  bed. 

Wednesday,  December  7.  Very  heavy  rain  all  night; 
thunder  and  lightning.  Boat  started  a  little  after  light; 
still  raining,  which  continued  nearly_  all  day.  Long  after 
night  we  approached  the  mouth  of  White  River,  which,  for 
half  a  mile  from  the  Mississippi,  is  full  of  snags.  By  the 
merciful  guidance  of  Providence  we  steered  clear  of  them 
and  at  length  entered  the  Father  of  Waters.  It  had  been 
lightning  for  some  time  and  the  storm  burst  upon  us.  Neither 
shore  was  visible  and  for  a  little  time  the  pilot  knew  not 
which  way  to  steer.  At  length  we  reached  Montgomery's 
Point  in  safety,  for  which  mercy  God's  holy  name  be  praised. 
I  never  felt  in  greater  peril.  At  the  landing  the  IsTarragansett 
was  just  ready  to  depart  and  the  majority  of  our  passengers, 
eight  or  nine  in  number,  went  aboard  of  her.  It  seemed  to 
me  like  a  tempting  of  Providence  to  go  on  the  river,  so  dark, 
foggy  and  stormy  a  night.  I  was  invited  by  Mr.  Greenwood 
to  his  house  and  accepted  the  invitation.  Saw  Captain 
Stevenson  here. 

Thursday,  December  8.  Slept  well  last  night,  and  be- 
fore breakfast  was  ended  the  "Josiah  Nichol,"  a  Xashville 
boat,  hove  in  sight.  I  went  aboard  and  took  a  berth  and 
now,  at  3  :30  p.  m.,  we  are  lying  to  for  wood.  The  day  has 
been  cool,  somewhat  cloudy  and  windy  and  the  river  rather 
rough.  At  night  about  7  p.  m.  ran  upon  a  sandbar.  After 
struggling  for  an  hour,  we  at  length  backed  off  and  ran  the 
remainder  of  the  night  without  accident.* 

A.  D.  1843.  March  10.  Our  only  prospect  of  getting 
on  now  seems  to  be  to  reach  Fulton  and  take  horses.  110  miles 


*There  is  another  account  in  the  diary  of  a  visitation  of  Fishnp  Otey  to  Arkansas 
by  a  different  route.  From  Memphis  to  New  Orleans,  from  thence  up  the  Red  River 
via  Alexandria,  Natchitoches,  etc. 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  79 

to  Fort  Towson.      It  is  doubtful  whether  our  captain  will 
go  beyond  the  bayou. 

March  17.  This  morning  met  a  rise  in  the  river  (Red 
River)  and  our  captain  resolved  to  take  his  cotton  from  the 
head  of  the  bayou  and  return  to  the  raft.  Thus  another  whole 
day  is  lost.  About  sundown  started  down  the  river  to  the 
raft.  Heard  Lieutenant  Armistead  was  on  the  "Hunter" 
in  the  bayou. 

March  IS.  Wrote  letters  this  morning  to  Dr.  Mercer 
and  to  Wm.  C.  Hopkins  and  sent  by  the  Belle  of  Red  River. 
White  frost  on  ground  this  morning ;  day  clear  and  fine.  Left 
Hurricane  Bluffs  second  time  at  3  :30  o'clock  and  proceeded 
up  the  river,  expecting  to  land  at  Fulton.  Our  captain,  after 
losing  three  days  in  going  up  and  down  the  river  to  remove 
his  cotton,  is  at  length  fairly  under  press  of  steam  for  Fulton. 

March  19.  Weather  clear  and  pleasant;  river  rising 
and  drift  wood  running;  banks  higher  and  river  wider;  land 
good.  Some  fine  plantations,  particularly  Garland's  place, 
which  is  a  prairie,  also  Bob  Hamilton's  plantation,  called 
"Little  Prairie."  We  reach  Fulton  on  the  night  of  March 
19.  In  the  morning  hire  a  horse  and  a  guide  for  Washing- 
ton, which  place  we  reach  at  12  m.  and  stop  at  Mr.  Britt's 
hotel.  He  hires  us  two  horses  to  ride  to  Fort  Towson,  for 
$25.  Road  for  six  miles  bad.  See  Captain  ]STorman,  Mr. 
Sanders,  Dr.  Isaac  Jones,  and  Mr.  Trimble.  Tea  at  Mr. 
Sanders.  Mr.  Sanders  reads  prayers  and  I  baptize  five 
children  and  preach.  (Children  of  Benjamin  Pendleton 
Lett  and  Hester  Lett — B.  P.  J.  Sponsor.)  (1)  Edward 
Davenport  Jett,  (2)  Benjamin  Pendleton  Jett,  (3)  Rosinia 
Virginia  Jett,  (5)  Emma  Jett.  Washington  is  a  poor  look- 
ing town  of  300  or  400  people. 

March  21.  Leave  Washington  at  8:30  a.  m.  Mr. 
Trimble  rides  with  us  several  miles  to  show  us  a  good  road ; 
very  kind  in  him.  He  married  Miss  jSTeal,  of  Franklin, 
Tenn.  Have  a  lonely  ride  with  Mr.  H.  Country  very  poor 
and  thinly  settled.  Cross  Mine  Creek  and  the  Saline,  and 
reach  Stallcup's  sit  4  :30  p.  m.      Saw  to-day  five  or  six  deer, 


80  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

eight  wild  geese,  two  turkeys,  and  two  ducks.      Distance  from 
Washington  to  Stallcup's,  forty  miles. 

March  22.  Leave  Stallcup's  at  7:15  a.  m. ;  arrive  at 
Ultima  Thule,  over  an  exceedingly  poor  country;  pine  ridges 
and  forests  ;  timber  dead,  on  fire ;  wind  high ;  swamps  terrible  ; 
many  deer.  To-day  entered  the  Choctaw  Nation.  First  act 
to  baptize  a  child,  Lucy  Ellen,  daughter  of  Lorenzo  T.  and 
Elizabeth  Harris.  Ride  to  Rev.  Mr.  Byington's,  accom- 
panied by  Mr.  Harris  and  his  nephew.  The  Harrises  (uncle 
and  nephew)  married  sisters  of  Colonel  P.  P.  Pitchlym. 
Rev.  Mr.  Byington  is  a  teacher  and  preacher  in  Choctaw 
Nation.  School  under  the  control  of  B.  C.  P.  M.  Choctaws 
give  seven-eighth  or  six-seventh  for  support  of  establishment. 
Everything  seemed  neat,  cleanly,  and  in  good  order.  Chil- 
dren appear  happy  and  contented.  Suggested  to  Mr.  Bying- 
ton and  Mr.  Wright  the  importance  of  a  "Liturgy,"  which 
they  received  kindly.  Stop  at  Colonel  Pitchlym's.  Lost  his 
wife.  Reach  Towson  at  7  o'clock  p.  m.  Weary!  weary! 
weary !  ! 

March  24.  Morning  prayer  was  read  by  Rev.  Mr. 
Harris.  Sermon  by  myself.  Afternoon  prayer  was  read 
by  myself  and  sermon  by  Mr.  Harris,  who  also  preached  at 
night  at  Doakville.  Saw  Rev.  Mr.  Kingsberry,  missionary. 
At  night  visited  Mrs.  Bacon,  a  sick  lady. 

March  25.  Very  unwell  for  a  week  past  with  dyspepsia, 
worse  to-day.  Wrote  this  morning  to  Colonel  A.  M.  M.  Up- 
shaw,  at  Fort  Washita.  Nominate  Mr.  Wm.  Johnson  and 
Mr.  Gay  for  chaplain  at  this  post.  Mr.  Gay  unanimously 
chosen.  Rode  to  Doakville  and  to  Mr.  Kingsberry's  with 
Major  Andrews,  Dr.  Baily  and  Mr.  Harris.  Visited  Mr. 
Kingsberry's  school  (female).  It  has  thirty  girls  in  charge 
with  two  teachers — Miss  Arms  and  Miss  Dickinson.  The 
children  do  not  look  sprightly,  but  dull,  and  their  exhibitions 
show  much  stupidity.  Mr.  Kingsberry  and  family  appear 
to  be  amiable  and  devoted  to  their  work.  Had  a  long  con- 
versation with  him  about  introducing  a  "liturgy."  He  pro- 
fessed to  think  well  of  the  project.       Have  experienced  many 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  81 

and  marked  attentions  from  the  officers  of  the  garrison.     The 
commandant  lias  every  day  detailed  an  orderly  for  my  use. 

March  2C>.  Rain  this  morning.  Write  to  Messrs.  Gay 
and  Johnson,  of  Ch.  Hill,  Ala.  Lieutenant  Armistead  and 
lady  arrived  by  steamboat.  Heavy  rain.  Mr.  Kingsberry 
calls.  Write  to  Mr.  Ch.  Tomes  and  send  draft  on  T.  at 
Harford,  X.  Y.,  for  $500.  At  night  prayers  by  Mr.  Harris 
and  sermon  by  myself. 

March  27.  Left  Fort  Towson.  Rain.  Lieutenant  Wet- 
more,  three  privates  and  wagon,  Dr.  Baily,  to  Spencer 
Academy.  Fifty  boarders,  under  Rev.  McHenny,  Mr.  Wil- 
son, and  Mr.  Dwight  (Mr.  Dwight,  Choctaw)  ;  $6,000  amount 
of  allowance.  Rode  through  a  well  watered  and  good  conn- 
try  at  first,  then  very  poor  and  rough.  Stop  and  pitch  tents 
about  5  p.  m. 

March  28.  Camp  Pecose.  Slept  comfortably  under  a 
tent.  Fished  last  night.  Lieutenant  Wetmore  and  I  caught 
a  mess  for  supper.  March  at  6  :30.  O,  the  mountains !  the 
blue  mountains!  how  they  remind  me  of  ray  own!  my  native 
land !  Prairies ;  Kimishi  River,  thunder  cloud.  In  camp 
by  6  p.  m. 

March  29.  In  a  prairie  (Camp  Pluviose).  Thunder, 
lightning;  high  wind  and  heavy  rain  all  night;  propose  fire; 
rain  and  muddy  in  the  morning;  water  courses  all  up.  Left 
our  cam])  at  8  a.  m.  Rains  all  day  till  at  night  it  changes 
into  snow.  Reach  Pursley's  Creek;  find  it  high,  10  or  15 
feet  of  water.  Pitch  our  tent.  Cold,  wet  and  muddy;  high 
wind,  etc. 

March  30.  Camp  Moose.  Snow  half  inch  deep;  clear 
and  cold  ;  light  clouds  flying.  Slept  with  little  comfort, 
Cross  the  dividing  ridge  between  the  Red  and  Arkansas 
rivers.  Waited  eighteen  hours  to  cross  Pursley's  Creek. 
Broke  the  king  bolt;  roads  very  dee])  in  places;  extensive 
pine  barrens;  prairies;  mountains  on  mountains! 

March  31,  Sunday.  Camp  Terrill.  Day  of  rest. 
Reached  Terrill's  (Indian)   at  sundown.        The  Poteau  im- 


82  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

passable.  Slept  in  Terrill's  house  last  night — the  hardest 
floor  I  ever  felt!  Went  to  top  of  mountain  and  again  dedi- 
cated myself  and  all  that  I  have  in  solemn  prayer  to  God. 
This  is  the  anniversary  of  my  wife's  birth.  Fervently  have  I 
piaved  for  her ! 

April  1.  Poteau  still  too  high  to  cross,  and  we  have  to 
wait  here  to-day,  perhaps  to-morrow.  Went  "afishing"  and 
caught  nothing.  Passed  the  remainder  of  the  day  in  read- 
ing. Mr.  Harris  went  with  DeWit  into  the  country  to  find 
some  Indian  families.  Saw  one  family  in  a  comfortable 
condition,  etc. 

April  2.  Clear.  I  cross  the  Poteau  this  morning.  Road 
passes  to-day  through  some  good  land  and  some  of  the  most 
beautiful  prairies  I  ever  saw.  Mountains  on  our  right,  the 
"Sugar  Loaf;"  on  our  left,  the  "Cayiniole" — called  by  the 
Indians,  "Grumbling  Mountain,"  an  extinct  volcano.  Fine 
streams ;  grouse,  deer ;  large  mounds. 

April  3.  Left  camp  early  this  morning  and  reached 
Fort  Smith  about  9  a.  m.  Was  invited  by  General  Zachary 
Taylor  to  his  quarters.  After  dinner  rode  with  Major  Hun- 
ter to  see  Mrs.  Rowland.  Saw  Mrs.  Berrvhill,  Mrs.  Bates, 
Mrs.  Pease,  Mrs.  Magee,  and  returned.  Mr.  McManus  is, 
I  hear,  sick. 

April  4.  Rode  with  General  Taylor  this  morning  and 
viewed  the  new  fortifications.  Bought  cigars,  belting,  bags, 
$6.  Saw  Colonel  Loomis  and  lady,  Mrs.  Hunton,  Houghman 
and  daughter.  Dined  with  General  Taylor,  then  rode  to 
Van  Buren.  Saw  Mr.  MeManns,  who  read  prayers  at  night. 
I  preached  in  C.  II.      Congregation  large  and  attentive. 

April  5.  Good  Friday.  Very  unwell  this  morning. 
Mr.  Harris  came  down  and  left  on  steamboat  '"Roller"  for 
Fort  Gibson.  Wrote  to  Bishop  Whittingham  and  clergy  in 
Baltimore.  Met  with  the  Masons  in  lodge ;  walked  in  pro- 
cession and  laid  the  comer  stone  of  Trinity  Church,  Van 
Buren.  Then  delivered  an  nddress  after  appropriate  religious 
exercises,  etc. 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  83 

April  6.     Boat  came  last  night  at  11  p.  m.,  went  aboard. 
Left  Van  Buren  about  9:30  a.  m.      Scenery  on  the  Arkans 
grand  and  imposing;  high,  beetling  cliffs  on  the  banks,  espe- 
cially on  the  right  side.     Heavy  storm  of  rain,  thunder  and 

lightning. 

April  7.  Easter.  Compelled  to  pass  this  blessed  and 
holy  day  on  a  steamboat.  Rain,  thunder  and  lightning  this 
morning.  Rev.  Mr.  Foreman  (Cherokee)  left  the  boat  last 
night  at  Spadra,  making  it  a  matter  of  conscience  not  to 
travel  on  Sunday.  Mountains  approach  very  near  the  river 
at  times;  sublime  cliffs!  Read  prayers  and  preached  in  the 
afternoon. 

April  9.  Saw  Mr.  Brearly  last  night  at  Dardanelle. 
Passed  the  wreck  of  the  "Arkansas"  this  morning;  afterwards 
came  to  the  mouth  of  Fourche  La  Fevre,  where  a  dead  man 
(drowned)  was  picked  up  from  the  Arkansas,  the  captain 
of  which  engaged  a  man  to  bury  him — from  Green  County, 
Ohio.  Preach  at  Little  Rock  and  confirm  thirteen.  Letters 
from  home.     Write  to  Charles  Tomes. 

April  9.     Left  Little  Rock  last  night. 

A.  D.  1844.  Bishop  Otey  made  another  visitation  to 
Arkansas  in  1844.  Rev.  James  Young,  Missionary  Rector. 
A  list  of  those  confirmed  by  him  on  April  8,  1844,  thirteen 
in  number,  is  here  given: 

(1)  Harriet  Grafton,  (2)  Mrs.  Samuel  F.  Johnson,  (3) 
Mrs.  Clarissa  Beebe,  (1)  Miss  Caroline  Elliott,  (5)  Miss 
S.  S.  D'Estimanville,  (6)  Mrs.  Martha  F.  Trapnell,  (7)  Dr. 
Skinner,  (S)  Mrs.  Merrick,  (9)  Mrs.  Miller,  (10)  Mrs. 
Field,  (11)  Miss  Frances  Field,  (12)  Miss  Ellen  Field,  ( 13) 
Mrs.  Charles  Rapley. 

Copy  of  letter  from  Bishop  James  *H.  Otey  to  Rev.  Otis 
Hackett,  of  Helena,  Ark.,  which  relates  the  appointment  to 
jurisdiction  of  Arkansas,  after  the  death  of  Bishop  Freeman. 
Courtesy  of  Dr.  B.  B.  Minor,  son-in-law  of  Bishop  Otey : 


84  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

Memphis,  Tonn.,  June  1,  1858. 

Rev.  and  Dear  Sir — I  have  just  received  a  letter  from 
the  Kt.  Rev.  Senior  Bishop  T.  C.  Brownell,  D.  D.,  etc.,  ap- 
pointing me  to  the  office  of  Missionary  Bishop  of  Arkansas, 
rendered  vacant  by  the  lamented  Bishop  Freeman's  death. 
As  I  know  not  what  clergymen  or  laymen  compose  the  stand- 
ing- committee,  nor  where  to  address  the  committee,  I  write  to 
you  and  ask  of  you  the  favor  to  communicate  to  the  com- 
mittee my  acceptance  of  the  charge,  and  furthermore  to  ask 
of  the  committee  to  communicate  to  me  as  speedily  as  possible 
the  names  of  the  standing  committee,  president  and  secretary, 
where  it  may  be  addressed,  the  names  and  residences  of  the 
clergymen  belonging  to  the  jurisdiction  of  the  late  Missionary 
Bishop,  the  organized  parishes,  missionary  stations,  and  any 
other  information  necessary  for  me  to  have  in  order  to  the 
administration  of  the  affairs  of  the  late  Bishop's  jurisdiction. 
I  cannot  probably  make  a  visitation  of  the  State  before  the 
fall,  though  T  may  find  it  in  my  power  to  do  something  in 
that  way  during  the  summer  for  the  congregations  near  the 
Mississippi  River.      I  remain,  very  truly, 

Your  faithful  friend  and  brother, 

JAS.  H.  OTEY. 

Rev.  Otis  Hackett,  Helena,  Ark. 

From  a  sermon  prepared  by  the  Rev.  John  A.  Harrison 
for  a  service  held  at  Eastertide,  on  the  tenth  anniversary  of 
his  decease,  during  the  session  of  a  Diocesan  Convention,  the 
following  beautiful  tribute  is  taken: 

The  aged  Saint  received  his  release  in  the  sixty-third 
year  of  his  age,  in  the  thirtieth  of  his  Episcopate,  and. the 
thirty-eighth  of  his  ministry.  As  he  lay  in  the  former 
chancel  of  this  Church  (at  Memphis)  in  his  robes,  pre- 
pared for  his  burial,  the  long,  large  frame,  with  a  cross 
clasped  in  his  hand,  he  looked  as  he  Avas,  the  Christian  warrior 
in  repose.  His  dear  remains  are  interred  in  the  sweet  God's 
acre  of  St.  John's,  Ashwood*     We  have    the  comfort  of  a 


*See  picture  near  that  of  Bishop  Polk,  who  with  his  brothers  erected  it. 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  85 

reasonable,  religious  and  holy  hope  that  lie  now  rests  from 
his  labors,  ''blessed  in  the  Lord,"  in  company  with  his  wife 
and  the  children  who  had  preceded  him,  in  communion  with 
the  Stephens,  Father  and  Son,  and  with  Lytton,  with  Allston, 
and  Tomes,  and  Fagg;  with  Ravenscroft,  and  Hobart,  and 
White;  with  Cranmer,  and  Latimer,  and  Ridley;  with 
Augustine,  and  Chrysostom,  and  Polycarp ;  with  St.  Paul, 
and  St.  John,  and  St.  Peter,  and  with  the  faithful  departed 
of  all  ages.  Their  dust  is  gold !  "If  we  believe  that  Jesus 
died  and  rose  again,  even  so  them  also  which  sleep  in  Jesus 
will  God  bring  with  Him."  "The  memory  of  the  just  is 
blessed."  The  good  husbandman  waited  long  for  the  precious 
fruit  of  the  seed  he  had  sown.  It  never  fully  came.  It 
shall  come  finally.  Tennessee  shall  honor  the  name  of  her 
first  Bishop,  and  the  Southwest  the  character  of  its  great  mis- 
sionary. The  young  men  and  maidens  he  taught,  the  scores 
he  ordained,  the  hundreds  he  confirmed,  the  congregations  to 
whom  he  ministered,  and  all  that  knew  him  shall  call  him 
blessed.  And  the  wilderness  and  the  solitary  places  shall, 
after  the  early  and  the  latter  rain,  blossom  as  the  rose ;  and 
Mossing  shall  be  upon  the  head  of  him,  who,  for  more  than  a 
quarter  of  a  century,  planted  in  and  watered  it.  We  will 
thank  God  for  the  good  example  of  this,  His  servant.  We 
will  seek  for  grace  to  walk  as  he  did  in  the  footsteps  of  Christ. 
We  will  pray  God,  that  with  all  those  who  are  departed 
hence  in  the  true  faith  of  his  holy  name,  we  may  have  our  per- 
fect consummation  and  bliss,  both  in  body  and  soul  in  His 
eternal  and  everlasting  glory." 

His  own  chosen  epitaph  was  given  on  his  death-bed. 
"Write  me,"  he  said,  "the  first  Bishop  of  the  Catholic  Church 
of  Tennessee.  Say  in  my  behalf,  'The  blood  of  Jesus  Christ 
cleanseth  from  all  sin.'  " 

There  are  three  portraits  of  him.  One  hangs  in  the  Epis- 
copal  residence  at  Memphis,  the  second  is  at  the  University 
of  the  South  at  Sewanee,  and  the  third  is  at  the  Historical 
Society  rooms,  at  Nashville,  Tenn. 

—7— 


86  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

Bishop  Otey  published  a  number  of  charges,  sermons, 
speeches  and  addresses — "The  Unity  of  the  Church,"  "The 
Ministry/'  "The  Apostolical  Succession,"  and  three  dis- 
courses in  1852,  viz:  ••Doctrine/'  '"Discipline/''  and  •"Wor- 
ship of  the  American  Branch  of  the  Catholic  Church,  Ex- 
plained and  Unfolded."  His  work  in  Tennessee  lost  nothing',  it 
seems,  by  the  generous  distribution  of  his  time  in  the  interest 
and  welfare  of  the  mission  in  Arkansas.  He  died  revered 
and  lamented  in  both  States.  In  the  new  Church  at  Little 
Rock  a  memorial  has  been  placed  to  his  memory — an  eagle 
lecturn,  with  outspread  wings,  carved  in  walnut  wood,  bearing 
the  reading  desk.  This  is  supported  by  a  column  with  tri- 
angular base,  having. three  feet,  each  foot  a  carved  lion,  the 
whole  decorated  with  fleur  de  lis.       It  bears  this  inscription: 

"In  memoriam,  Rt.  Rev.  James  Hervey  Otey,  D.  D., 
Consecrated  January  4,   1834;  died  April  23,   1803." 

The  children  of  Rt.  Rev.  James  H.  Otey,  D.  D.,  and 
Eliza  Davis  Parnell,  his  wife,  were: 

1.  Virginia  Maury.  Harried  May  26,  1842,  in  St. 
Peter's  Church,  Columbia,  Tenm,  Benjamin  Blake  Minor,  a 
lawyer  of  Richmond,  Va.  They  are  now  living  in  that  city, 
both  over  three  score  and  ten  years.  Dr.  Minor  has  been 
editor  and  proprietor  of  the  Southern  Literary  Messenger] 
corresponding  secretary  of  the  Virginia  Bible  Society ;  secre- 
tary of  the  Virginia  Colonization  Society;  president  of  the 
Richmond  Tract  Society ;  director  of  the  Virginia  Historical 
Society;  Vestryman,  Warden,  Register  and  Delegate  of  St. 
James's  Church,  Richmond,  Va. ;  principal  of  the  Virginia 
Female  Institute  (Episcopal),  at  Staunton,  Va. ;  delegate  and 
vice  president  of  the  Commercial  Convention,  at  Memphis ; 
president  of  the  State  University  at  Missouri,  which  conferred 
upon  him  the  honorary  degree  of  LL.  D. ;  principal  of  Minor's 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  87 

Seminary  for  Young-  Ladies,  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.  He  is  now 
the  secretary  of  the  Virginia  Society  of  the  Sons  of  the  Ameri- 
can Revolution.  Mrs.  Minor  was  promoter  of  the  Mount 
Vernon  Association,  and  of  other  laudable  enterprises,  and 
has  been  the  author  of  numerous  highly  creditable  produc- 
tions in  prose  and  in  verse,  besides  excelling  in  vocal  and 
instrumental  music  on  the  piano,  harp  and  guitar.  They 
have  had  eight  sons  and  three  daughters.* 

2.  Henrietta  Coleman.  Married  the  Rev.  Charles 
Tomes,  who  died  in  Nashville,  whilst  he  was  Rector  of  a 
Church  there.  She  has  recently  died  in  Washington,  D.  C. 
They  have  left  two  children,  Margie  (unmarried),  George,  in 
New  York  (married  and  has  children).  Mr.  Tomes  was  an 
Englishman,  a  widower  with  children  and  a  member  of  a 
large  hardware  house  in  Xew  Y'ork.  He  there  became  ac- 
quainted with  Bishop  Otey  and  went  to  Tennessee  to  pursue 
his  studies  for  the  ministry  under  the  Bishop.  After  he 
became  his  son-in-law  he  took  charge  of  a  Church  in  Sing 
Sing,  X.  Y.,  but  was  called  to  Xashville,  where  he  proved  to 
be  an  efficient  and  successful  Rector,  and  was  instrumental 
in  having  built  a  new  and  handsome  Church. 

3.  Reginald  Heber.  Died  in  his  tenth  year  at  Franklin, 
Tenn. 

4.  Paul  Hooker.  Died  in  Memphis  of  the  last  yellow 
fever  there.       In  that  visitation  and  the  previous  one,  he  ren- 


*The  accompanying  notice  from  a  Richmond  paper  announces  the  distressing 
death  of  one  of  these  sons : 

MR.  MINOR'S  BODY  HERE. 

KILLED  NOVEMBER  4,  1898 — HIS  REMAINS  INTERRED  YESTERDAY. 

The  body  of  Mr.  Washington  Minor,  who  was  killed  at  Wickford  Junction,  R.  I., 
last  Friday,  arrived  here  at  8:40  o'clock  yesterdav  morning,  and  was  conveyed  to  the 
home  of  his  father,  Mr.  B.  B.  Minor,  No.  520  West  Grace  street,  whence  at  3:30 
o'clock,  it  was  taken  to  All  Saints'  Church,  where  funeral  services  were  held.  Rev. 
J.  Yates  Downman  conducted  the  services,  and  the  interment  was  in  Hollywood. 
The  family  have  not  yet  received  the  particulars  of  the  young  man's  death,  though 
they  have  been  advised  by  the  railroad  authorities  that  a  letter  of  particulars  has 
been  mailed. 


88  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

tiered  valuable  service.  lie  attended  Kenyon  College,  Ohio, 
but  was  educated  medically  in  Richmond,  and  in  Philadel- 
phia, under  the  celebrated  Dr.  Muter.  He  married  Mary 
Ann  Bowles,  of  Holly  Springs,  Miss.,  and  became  a  planter 
near  Marianna,  Ark. ;  was  a  surgeon  in  the  Confederate  army ;, 
lost  his  wrife  about  the  close  of  the  war,  and  settled  in  Mem- 
phis for  the  practice  of  his  profession.  They  had  no 
children,  but  adopted  an  orphan  girl,  whom  they  reared  to  be 
a  fine  woman,  who  survived  them  and  married  well. 

5.  Sarah  McGavoch.  Died  just  as  she  finished  her 
course  at  the  Columbia  Female  Institute,  and  her  eighteenth 
year.  She  was  richly  endowed  in  every  respect.  She  was 
so  beloved  by  her  father  that  her  death  was  a  crushing  blow 
to  him. 

6.  Mary  Fogg.  Married  Daniel  C.  Govan,  of  Missis- 
sippi. He  became  a  planter  near  Marianna,  Ark.  During 
the  struggle  of  the  Southern  Confederacv,  he  was  the  colonel 
of  the  Second  Arkansas ;  wTas  promoted  to  the  rank  of  briga- 
dier general ;  was  wounded  and  taken  prisoner  in  the  battle 
of  Franklin.  After  the  war  he  resumed  his  planting  in 
Arkansas.  By  the  administration  of  President  Cleveland 
he  was  appointed  superintendent  of  Indian  affairs  in  Wash- 
ington State,  where  he  is  now.  His  wife  was,  not  very  long- 
ago,  killed  by  an  accident  on  the  street  car  in  Seattle.  They 
have  sons  and  daughters,  several  of  whom  are  married. 

7.  Eliza  Ripley  (called  Donna).  Married  Robert 
Compton,  of  Lexington,  Va.  He  was  a  student  of  the  Vir- 
ginia Military  Institute  and  a  member  of  the  famous  Stone- 
wall Brigade.  Since  the  war  he  and  his  wife  lived  several 
years  in  Missouri,  where  he  was  a  teacher.  He  died  several 
years  ago  in  Norfolk,  Va.  She  has  lived  for  years  in  Wash- 
ington City,  where  she  has  some  employment  under  the  gov- 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  89 

eminent.        She  has  four    interesting    daughters,    throe  of 
whom  are  married,  and  she  is  a  grandmother. 

8.  Frances  Jane  Bretney.  Died  in  her  very  promis- 
ing girlhood. 

9.  William  Newton  Mercer.  Named  for  the  Bishop's 
very  dear  friend,  Dr.  Mercer,  of  New  Orleans,  La.  Is  now 
living  at  Oakland,  Cal.,  and  doing  business  in  San  Francisco. 
Has  his  second  wife,  Geraldine  Gager,  with  three  sons  and 
two  daughters.  He  left  the  Virginia  Military  Institute  to 
go  into  the  Confederate  army ;  where  he  was  engaged  mostly 
ii.  the  signal  service  with  General  Polk's  corps.  After  the 
war  he  married  Patsy  Compton  (sister  of  Robert,  who  married 
his  own  sister  Donna),  and  she  and  her  first  infant,  were 
buried  at  the  same  time. 

From  the  Richmond  Dispatch,  of  date  April  24,  1900. 
we  copy  the  notice  of  Mrs.  B.  B.  Minor's  death: 

MRS.  B.  B.  MINOR  DEAD. 

SHE  PASSES  AWAY  AFTER  A  BRIEF  ILLNESS. 

Mrs.  Virginia  Maury  Otey  Minor,  wife  of  Dr.  Benjamin 
Blake  Minor,  died  at  her  home,  No.  520  West  Grace  street, 
last  night,  after  an  illness  of  short  duration  of  pneumonia. 

Deceased  was  in  the  seventy-eighth  year  of  her  age.  She 
was  the  eldest  child  of  the  Right  Rev.  James  H.  Otey,  I).  D., 
the  Bishop  of  Tennessee,  but  a  native  of  Bedford  County,  Va. 
Just  after  the  completion  of  her  education  at  "the  Columbia 
Female  Institute,"  of  which  her  father  was  the  founder,  he 
brought  her  to  Virginia  for  the  purpose  of  restoring,  at  the 
Greenbrier  White  Sulphur  Springs,  her  health,  impaired  by 
earnest  study,  and  of  her  visiting  his  and  her  mother's 
brothers,  in  Lynchburg  and  Petersburg.  It  was  in  the  latter 
city  that  she  first  met  the  young  lawyer  who  became  her  life 
companion  for  fifty-eight  years.     At  the  time  of  their  engage- 


90  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

merit  he  removed  to  the  city  of  Richmond,  and  pursued  his 
profession  here  for  one  year  before  marriage. 

When  she,  a  beautiful  and  brilliant  bride,  arrived  here, 
in  the  summer  of  1842,  she  was  most  cordially  received  by 
the  very  best  people  of  Richmond.  She  was  a  fine  musician 
and  an  exquisite  vocalistj  and  played  upon  and  sang'  to  the 
harp  and  guitar  as  well  as  the  piano.  She  was  also  a  spirited 
and  pleasing  writer  in  prose  and  verse. 

Before  her  graduation  she  was  a  contributor  to  the 
magazine  of  the  Columbia  Institute,  called  The  Guardian. 
She  was  a  contributor  to  the  Southern  Literary  Messenger, 
and  gave  some  assistance  in  the  editorial  department  during 
some  absences  of  her  husband.  She  was  the  author  of  the 
"Prize-Tale,  Stephano  Colonim,"  and  several  others.  She 
assisted  her  husband  in  his  educational  work  in  Staunton, 
Richmond,  and  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

Before  her  removal  to  the  University  of  Missouri  she 
took  an  active  part  in  whatever  interested  the  ladies  of  Rich- 
mond, and  particularly  in  the  efforts  of  the  Mount  Vernon 
Association,  to  purchase  the  home  of  Washington.  She,  with 
a  part  of  her  children,  returned  to  Richmond  in  1884,  and 
had  resided  here  ever  since. 

On  the  26th  of  May,  1892,  she  celebrated  her  golden 
wedding,  which  was  largely  attended  by  the  friends  of  herself 
and  family. 

For  several  years  past  she  had  been  an  invalid,  but  her 
malady  only  endeared  her  the  more  to  her  family  and  friends, 
and  yet  it  was  an  unexpected  attack  of  pneumonia  which 
closed  her  long  and  interesting  life. 

Tier  husband,  B.  B.  Minor,  and  five  children — Dr.  B.  B. 
Minor,  Jr.,  of  Texas;  William  P.  Minor,  of  Michigan; 
Misses  Viola,  Jane,  and  Zollo  Minor,  of  Richmond — -survive 
her.  together  with  Mrs.  G.  R.  Frost,  B.  L.  Minor,  and  Vir- 
ginia S.  Minor,  her  grandchildren,  and  one  sister,  Mrs.  Comp- 
ton,  of  Washington. 

The  funeral  arrangements  have  not  been  made. 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  91 


REV.  JAMES  YOUNG. 

A.  D.  1844-1846.  Rev.  James  Young  succeeded  Rev. 
Mr.  Yeager  in  1844,  bringing  with  him  a  wife  and  several 
children,  the  youngest  of  whom,  if  not  born  here,  was  bap- 
tized here,  for  there  is  a  tradition  that  when  the  name  of 
George  Washington  was  suggested  to  Mr.  Young,  he  demur- 
red, on  the  plea  "that  too  many  George  Washingtons  had 
been  hanged."  In  further  evidence  of  his  character,  a  letter 
written  by  him  to  one  of  his  former  parishioners  has  been 
kindly  granted  for  use  in  these  pages.  It  was  written  to  the 
late  Colonel  Wm.  E.  Ashley  on  the  occasion  of  his  marriage 
with  the  beautiful  Miss  Fanny  Grafton,  and  is  here 
transcribed : 

Berlin,  Worcester  County,  Md.,  December  7,  184G. 

Dear  Will — I  was  truly  gratified  by  the  intelligence  of 
your  marriage,  communicated  by  my  cherished  friend,  Air. 
Beebe,  in  a  letter  received  from  him  a  few  days  ago.1  I  trust 
that  both  yourself  and  Mrs.  Ashley  will  allow  me  to  offer  my 
heartfelt  congratulations  on  this  happy  consummation,  and 
assure  you  of  my  prayers  and  desires  for  the  continued  hap- 
piness and  prosperity  of  both  in  your  now  relationship.  May 
God,  our  Heavenly  Father,  bless  your  union,  and  make  it 
tributary  to  the  temporal  and  eternal  welfare  of  both.  For 
the  dear  girls,  to  whom  you  stand  in  the  relation  of  husband 
and  brother,2  I  have  ever  entertained  the  affection  also  of  a 
brother.  Their  happiness  secured  would  add  to  mine,  however 
distant  I  might  be  from  them,  and  the  consciousness  that  in 
this  union  the  happiness  of  one  of  the  little  band  was  made 

1.  The  late  Roswell  Beebe,  who  married  Miss  Eliot,  half-sister  of  the  bride. 
Mr.  Beebe  lived  in  a  large,  handsome  brick  residence  fronting;  on  Markham 
ptr^ftt.  rea  the  ground  now  occiimed  by  the  post  office.  Gazette  building, 
and  H.  T,.  Re-n-nel's  insurance  building.  It  was  painted  white,  and  surrounded 
on  all  sides  by  trees  of  forest  growth. 

2.  Fanny  and  Harriet  Grafton,  afterwards  Mrs.  Richard  Fatherly. 


92  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

sure,  so  far  as  happiness  belongs  to  this  life,  afforded  me  and 
my  wife  the  sincerest  and  most  lively  pleasure  and  satisfac- 
tion. It  would  have  added  greatly  to  my  gratification  had 
I  been  present  to  officiate  on  the  occasion,  and  still  more  to 
have  enrolled  you  both  as  members  of  the  body  of  Christ  our 
Lord.  This,  I  trust,  will  be  done  for  you  by  some  other  in 
good  time,  and  that  you  and  yours  will  ever  be  found  on  the 
side  of  righteousness  and  truth.  Do  not  leave  the  Church 
to  which  your  hearty  preference  hitherto  has  led  you;  but 
let  that  preference  only  give  way  to  principle,  which  shall 
draw  the  bond  of  connection  closer  until  you  become  fully 
incorporated  with  the  great  body  of  the  elect  from  every 
tongue  and  kindred  under  the  whole  heaven.  And  mav  every 
blessing  in  the  gift  of  Him,  from  whom  cometh  every  good 
and  perfect  gift,  descend  upon  you  and  abide  with  you  always. 
My  wife  joins  me  in  love  and  congratulations,  and  sends  her 
warmest  love  to  you  and  the  dear  girls,  your  sisters,3  and  to 
Mrs.  Beebe,4  and  in  affectionate  remembrance  to  your 
esteemed  mother  and  sister,5  to  whose  kindness  during  the 
illness  of  our  little  boy,  we  owe  so  much.  I  assure  you  that 
when  we  look  back  upon  our  residence  in  Little  Rock,  now 
that  all  the  asperities  of  a  portion  of  my  experience  there  are 
worn  off,  we  discover  man;}  bright  and  cheering  pages  of  its 
history  that  will  ever  keep  open  a  warm  place  in  our  hearts 
for  the  wilds  of  Arkansas,  or  rather,  the  warm  hearts  that 
exist  there,  and  if  ever  it  pleases  God  to  put  me  in  possession 
of  the  means  I  shall  see  you  all  again  before  I  die,  God  will- 
ing. I  find  pretty  much  the  same  effect  following  my  efforts 
to  make  known  the  gospel  in  the  Church  everywhere  it  has 
been  my  privilege  to  preach.  I  have  a  small  parish  of  about 
fifty  communicants,  composed  of  farmers,  traders  and  pro- 
fessional men,  with  their  families,  and  am  getting  to  be  quite 
a  lion  among  them.  My  rough-hewn,  straightforward,  back- 
woods style  seems  to  tell  powerfully  upon  them  all,  the  most 


3.  Miss  Carrie  Eliott,  afterwards  Mrs.  D.  C.  Fulton,  and  Miss  Harriet  Grafton, 
afterwards  Mrs.  Richard  Fatherly. 

4.  Formerly  Miss Eliott. 

5.  Mrs.    Chester    Ashley,    and    Miss    Fanny  Ashley,    afterwards  Mrs.    A.    F. 
Freeman. 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  93 

intelligent  and  the  most  illiterate  alike,  and  I  hope  for  good, 
both  to  the  people  and  the  Church,  from  the  divine  blessing 
upon  my  efforts  in  this  pleasant,  but  secluded  nook.  Re- 
member me  affectionately  to  Mrs.  Henderson6  and  to  your 
grandpa  and  ma,7  to  Mrs.  Ringo  and  Mrs.  Trapnall,  and  to 
all  our  friends  in  the  Rock,  and  believe  me,  dear  Will, 
Yours  affectionately, 

JAS.  YOUXG." 


GENERAL  AND  MRS.  WILLIAM  ELIOT  ASHLEY. 

General  and  Mrs.  William  Eliot  Ashley  were  the  first 
citizens  united  in  marriage  in  the  first  Episcopal  Church, 
October  20,  1846,  although  one  other  couple  is  reported  to 
have  been  wedded  there,  in  passing  through  the  city. 

General  Ashley  was  the  eldest  son  of  Hon.  Cb  ester 
Ashley,  United  States  Senator  from  Arkansas,  and  Mary  W. 
Eliot,  his  wife,  of  Missouri.  He  married  Frances  Grafton, 
daughter  of  Joseph  Dana  Grafton,  of  St.  Genevieve,  Mo., 
and  Mary  Lewis  Eliot,  his  wife.  The  bride  and  groom 
were  of  a  common  ancestry  and  were  distantly  related. 

The  name  of  William  Ashley  was  the  synonym  of  kind- 
ness, courtesy  and  culture.  His  genial  temperament  and 
quick  sympathy  caused  his  friends  to  be  legion.  In  beauty 
of  feature  and  symmetry  of  form  Fanny  Grafton,  his  wife, 
was  acknowledged  to  be  peerless.  She  had  fine  literary  taste, 
and  as  a  conversationalist  was  especially  attractive.  As  she 
advanced  in  years  her  graces  of  spirit  crowned  and  sanctified 
all  other  charms,  and  disclosed  to  her  friends  the  most  endear- 
ing aspects  of  her  character.  Both  have  passed  beyond  the 
silent  river,  leaving  a  memory  that  will  long  be  cherished  by 


6.  Sister  of  Mrs.   Chester  Ashley. 

7.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Eliott. 

-By  courtesy  of  the  late  Mrs.  Wm.  E.  Ashley. 


94  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

all  who  knew  them.  Of  the  iive  children  born  to  them,  only 
one  daughter,  Frances  Ann,  afterwards  Mrs.  Clifton  S.  Gray, 
survives. 


THE   FIEST  EPISCOPAL   CHURCH. 

A.  D.  1843-1873.  The  building'  was  a  simple  parallelo- 
gram, built  in  brick,  without  transepts  or  vestry.  There 
were  two  aisles  and  two  entrances  from  the  west.  The  win- 
dows were  made  with  the  pointed  arch,  pertaining  to  the 
gothic  style  of  architecture.  Tn  the  eastern  part  was  the 
chancel,  as  is  customary  with  all  Episcopal  Churches.  This 
was  enclosed  with  a  circular  railing,  where  a  pulpit,  placed 
within  it,  was  reached  by  a  short  flight  of  steps.  A  reredos, 
carved  in  walnut,  also  of  gothic  design,  was  placed  against 
the  eastern  wall,  with  the  creed  and  commandments  inscribed 
on  a  blue  ground.  On  December,  1843,  Rev.  Mr.  Paradise, 
of  Philadelphia,  presented  the  silver  communion  service.  On 
either  side  of  the  chancel  were  two  wide  pews.  Those  on 
the  south  side  were  occupied  by  the  treasurer  and  secretary  of 
State,  Mr.  J.  H.  Crease  and  Mr.  S.  M.  Weaver,  with  their 
families.  Hon.  Samuel  .M.  Weaver,  of  Xew  Orleans.  La., 
came  to  Little  Rock  in  1840  and  was  Secretary  of  the  State 
of  Arkansas  in  I860.  He  was  not  a  Church  official,  but  his 
family  attended  the  services  regularly  in  the  first  Church. 
He  married  Mary  Eliza  Rose,  of  Roseville,  Ark.  They  had 
five  children:  (1)  Omer  R.  Weaver,  who  lost  his  life  at  the 
battle  of  Springfield,  Mo.,  August  10,  1801.  The  Confed- 
erate Camp  of  United  Veterans  perpetuates  his  name.  (2) 
Horace  Boardman,  deceased.  (3)  George  Vance,  married 
Alice  Compton,  now  deceased.  Their  son,  George,  married 
Maud    Samstas;.      (4)    Samuel    Montgomery,    married    Rffie 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  95 

Coleman,  deceased.  (5)  Mary,  married  Benjamin  Johnson 
Field,  deceased.  Two  of  their  children,  Mary  and  Mildred, 
died  in  infancy.  Four  survive  their  father:  Benjamin 
Johnson,  Omer  Weaver,  Leila,  and  Samuel  Weaver  Field. 
As  the  Rector  was  compelled  to  robe  in  the  presence  of  the 
congregation,  after  about  eight  years  passed,  there  was 
built,  during  the  incumbency  of  Rev.  Andrew  F.  Free- 
man, a  wooden  tower  on  the  western  front.  A  Vestry 
room  was  arranged  on  the  first  floor,  where  the  Rector  robed 
and  entered  the  Church  from  the  outside,  from  which  a  nar- 
row staircase  led  up  to  the  second  floor.  This  opened  on  the 
organ  loft,  which  was  sustained  by  two  large  columns  rising 
from  the  nave,  and  from  it  the  staircase  led  np  higher  to  the 
belfry  in  the  tower,  from  which  a  fine  view  of  the  city  was 
had.  An  organ  and  bell  were  placed  in  the  loft  and  tower 
later.  This  Church  was  located  in  the  center  of  three  lots, 
which  were  enclosed  with  a  wooden  fence.  One  magnificent 
oak  of  indigenous  growth  stood  on  the  west,  in  company  with 
the  tower,  which  it  overlooked  as  a  loving  guardian.  In 
the  heart  of  the  tree  about  six  feet  from  the  ground  was  a 
small  natural  hollow,  which  served  as  a  depository  for  the 
( Jhurch  keys.  As  none  but  habitues  and  the  sexton  were  in 
possession  of  the  secret  a  bank  could  not  have  been  safer. 
One  of  the  succeeding  rectors,  Dr.  J.  T.  Wheat,  conceived  and 
perfected  a  plan  of  supplying  the  Churchyard  with  shade, 
which  was  that  the  head  of  each  family  should  plant  an  ever- 
green for  each  child  in  the  family  within  the  enclosure  and  an 
elm  or  maple  on  the  outside  as  ;i  border  for  the  pavement. 
All  these  trees  which  had  grown  into  the  affections  of  the 
Church  people,  including  the  tower  oak,  were  burned  along 
with  the  Church  on  Sunday  night.  September  28,  1*7:5.  Not 
until     1803    wore    these    trees    replaced     by    Rev.     Wallace 


96  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

Carnahan.  Later  Dr.  Oantrell,  Senior  Warden,  had  them 
boxed  for  preservation  and  iron  hitching  posts  established. 
But  this  is  anticipating. 


REV.  WILLIAM  T.  SAUNDERS. 

A.  D.  1824-1857.  Rev.  William  T.  Saunders  succeeded 
the  Rev.  James  Young  as  missionary  minister  at  Christ 
Church,  which  office  he  filled  not  longer  than  two  years.  He 
is  described  by  those  who  remember  him  as  a  grave,  taciturn, 
shy  man,  though  an  interesting  talker  and  intelligent  preacher 
when  the  barrier  of  his  constitutional  diffidence  was  overcome. 
He  went  from  here  to  Apalachicola,  Fla.,  where  he  was  Rec- 
tor of  Trinity  Church  for  seventeen  years.  He  married 
while  there  Eliza  Morton,  who  was  born  January  24,  1824, 
in  New  York  City.  In  the  year  1867  he  published  a  small 
volume  called  "The  Pastor  s  Wife,"  or  "Memoirs  of  E.  M. 
8."  whom  he  had  the  misfortune  to  lose  after  prolonged  suf- 
fering, borne  with  the  heroism  of  a  Christian  martyr.  Their 
children  were  John  Morton,  William  Lawrence,  Walter 
Burns,  Robert  Duncan,  and  Jane  Morton.  The  last  was 
named  for  his  deceased  wife's  devoted  sister,  whom  he  after- 
wards married. 

At  that  time  the  family  of  Judge  William  Hume  Field 
was  conspicuous  in  the  early  Church  here.  Judge  Field  was 
a  native  of  Brunswick  County,  Ya.,  and  came  from  Tennessee 
to  Arkansas  in  April  of  1843.  His  wife  was  Mary  Amanda 
Flournoy,  of  Giles  County,  Tenn.  He  was  twenty  years 
judge  of  the  Fifth  Judicial  Circuit,  which  included  Pulaski 
County,  Ark.  Mary  Eliza  Field  was  their  second  child 
and  eldest  daughter.  On  February  3,  1846,  she  was  mar- 
ried to  Wm.  P.  Officer,  by  Bishop  Freeman,  at  the  family 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  97 

residence,  on  the  corner  of  Holly  (Eighth  street)  and  Seott 
streets,  where  the  eldest  son,  Wm.  lluine  Field  (2d),  with 
his  family,  still  resides. 

One  son,  Enstis  Field  Officer,  was  the  only  child  of  this 
marriage.  Mr.  Officer  died  about  five  years  afterwards.  In 
ls:>  7  Mrs.  Officer  was  married  to  Mr.  Gilbert  Knapp,  in 
Christ  Church,  by  Rev.  Andrew  F.  Freeman.  This  worthy 
and  highly  esteemed  pair  has,  for  years  resided  at  their  com- 
modious home,  built  in  colonial  style,  on  corner  of  Rector 
avenue  and  Chestnut  (Seventh)  street,  where  the  prophet's 
chamber  was  usually  occupied.  Bishop  Lay,  Bishop  Pierce, 
with  their  families,  and  the  Rev.  T.  B.  Lee;  all  knew  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Knapp  as  the  incomparable  host  and  hostess.  They 
now  reside  at  their  farm,  Toltec  station,  a  place  celebrated  for 
the  Indian  antiquities  that  have  been  obtained  from  the  In- 
dian mounds  on  the  place.  A  lovely  little  daughter,  Myra 
Flournoy,  was  born  to  them,  who  became  a  feature  of  interest 
to  the  town  with  her  quaint  sayings  and  earnest  questions, 
and  was  lamented  by  all  when  the  angel  of  death  came  to  take 
her  from  the  life  she  adorned.  There  was  always  a  dainti- 
ness of  fancy  and  speech,  an  exquisite  delicacy  of  thought, 
that  caused  Mrs.  Knapp  to  be  called  aesthetic  and  this  was  her 
patronymic  for  the  first  ladies'  literary  club  of  this  city,  of 
which  she  was  the  sponsor,  so  to  speak,  and  Mrs.  Rufns  J. 
Polk,  the  founder.  This  mantle  of  refinement  that  was  better 
proof  against  assault  than  a  coat  of  mail,  Mrs.  Knapp  has 
transferred  to  the  club  she  named,  which  is  acknowledged  to 
be  the  most  refined  in  the  city,  during  the  seventeen  years  of 
its  existence.  Her  sisters,  Mrs.  Caldwell  and  Mrs.  Lennox, 
both  dead,  and  her  nieces,  Mrs.  Crockett,  Mrs.  Andrew 
Hunter,  Misses  Nannie,  Jenny,  Zaida,  and  Ernest,  Miss 
Adelina  Lennox  and  brother  have  all  been  devoted  members 
of  Christ.  Church  from  infancv. 


98  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

A.  D.  1900.  On  .May  29,  1900,  the  death  of  Mrs. 
Knapp's  son,  Mr.  Eustis  Field  Officer,  was  announced  as  the 
result  of  injuries  received  May  14,  by  falling  from  the 
Choctaw  bridge  in  East  Little  Rock.  From  the  Arkansas 
Democrat  of  30th,  is  transferred  the  following  notice: 

INTELLECTUALLY  STRONG. 

TRIBUTE  TO  EUSTIS  T.   OFFICER.,  WHOSE   FUNERAL  OCCURS 

TO-DAY. 

The  funeral  of  the  late  Eustis  F.  Officer  will  occur  at 
4  o'clock  this  afternoon  from  Christ  Church,  Rev.  G.  Gordon 
Smeade  officiating. 

Mr.  Officer  was  born  in  Little  Rock  April  6,  1849.  He 
was  a  man  of  high  intellectual  attainments,  a  graduate  of  the 
Washington  and  Lee  University  of  Virginia,  where  he  gradu- 
ated with  the  highest  honors,  receiving  the  Robertson  prize 
medal.  He  was  particularly  proficient  in  mathematics  and 
attained  a  high  rank  in  civil  engineering.  He  was  employed 
in  this  capacity  with  the  Iron  Mountain  and  Cotton  Belt 
roads,  and  in  the  river  works  of  the  United  States  govern- 
ment in  the  Arkansas  and  White  rivers,  and  was  in  charge 
of  the  government  works  in  Pine  Bluff.  He  also  taught  in 
the  public  schools  of  this  city  and  was  at  one  time  principal 
of  the  Peabody  High  School.  Of  late  he  has  been  associated 
with  his  stepfather,  Gilbert  Knapp,  in  cotton  planting  and 
merchandising  at  Toltec.  His  death  was  a  particularly  sad 
one,  and  is  a  great  blow  to  his  bereaved  parents,  to  whom  he 
was  most  affectionately  devoted.  Mr.  Officer  was  a  man  of 
many  noble  qualities,  a  kind  and  affectionate  son,  and  a  gen- 
erous and  faithful  friend.  The  members  of  his  family  have 
the  sincere  sympathy  of  a  large  circle  of  friends  in  their  sad 
bereavement. 


RT.  REV.  GEORGE  WASHINGTON  FREEMAN.  D.  D. 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  99 

RT.  REV.  GEORGE  WASHINGTON  FREEMAN,  I).  D. 

A.  D.  1635-1789.  RL  Rev.  George  Washington  Free- 
man. D.  D.,  Second  Missionary  Bishop  of  Texas,  Arkansas 
and  the  Indian  Territory  of  the  Southwest,  was  a  descendant 
of  Edniond  Freeman,  who  arrived  in  the  ship  "Abigail"  from 
London  in  1635,  and  located  at  Sandwich,  Mass.  In  172U  he 
removed  to  the  State  of  Connecticut  and  settled  in  Mansfield. 
George  Washington  Freeman  was  horn  in  Sandwich,  Mass.,  on 
the  13th  of  June,  1789.  He  was  the  twelfth  child  of  Dr. 
Nathaniel  Freeman  and  Tryphosa  Cotton,  of  Killingly, 
Conn.,  who  were  married  May  5,  1763.  The  wife  died  July 
11,  1796,  aged  53.  Dr.  Freeman  was  twice  married,  and 
the  subject  of  this  memoir  was  the  youngest  child  of  his  first 
wife.  From  "The  Life  of  Bishop  Freeman,  of  Arkansas," 
by  the  Rev.  John  N.  Norton,  D.  I).,  is  quoted  the  following 
record  found  in  his  father's  commonplace  book:  "George 
had  read  flu'  Bible  through,  when  between  six  and  seven 
years  of  age."  *  *  *  Dr.  Freeman  had  a  very  large 
family  and  he  had  little  to  bequeath  his  children  beyond  the 
precious  example  of  his  own  useful,  honored,  patriotic,  Chris- 
tian life.  Our  little  hero  was  remarkable  from  his  earliest 
years,  for  his  amiable  disposition,  obedience  to  his  parents, 
respect  for  the  aged,  a  generous  heart  and  a  scrupulous  regard 
for  the  truth  and  right.  During  one  of  the  Bishop's  latest 
visits  to  his  native  place,  he  expressed  a  desire  to  call  upon 
some  of  the  elders  of  the  place,  and  among  them  was  an  excel- 
lent Quaker  lady,  whose  memory  was  now  most  active,  as 
is  often  the  case  with  the  aged,  in  recalling  the  scenes  and 
incidents  of  early  life.  On  entering  the  room  where  she  sat, 
the  Bishop  approached  and  gave  her  his  hand.        She  not 


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100  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

appearing  to  recollect  him,  he  said:  "Don't  you  know  me?" 
She  looked  intently  for  a  moment,  when,  her  face  brighten- 
ing, she  replied :  "Canst  thou  be  he — he,  that  good  little 
George  ?"  The  Bishop  was  evidently  both  amused  and1 
gratified.  She  recollected  him  from  a  natural  mark  of  a 
raspberry  upon  one  of  his  eyelids.  She  remembered  very 
well  that,  whilst  other  boys  of  his  age  visited  her  father's  cele- 
brated orchard  uninvited,  "George  was  a  good  boy,  and 
always  asked  permission."     *     *     * 

"It  was  not  Bishop  Freeman's  privilege  to  be  trained 
up  in  the  bosom  of  the  Church  at  whose  altars  he  so  faithfully 
ministered,  his  parents  being  rigid  Congregationalists.  His 
Puritan  descent  will  account  for  some  of  his  peculiarities  of 
opinion,  especially  his  very  strict  notions  in  regard  to  worldly 
amusements.  It  seems,  however,  that  although  George  was 
thus  breathing  an  atmosphere  most  unfriendly  to  the  growth 
of  Episcopacy,  he  early  formed  an  acquaintance  with  the 
Prayer  Book,  and  learned  to  love  it." 

This-  Prayer  Book  and  Bishop  Ravenscroft,  of  Xorth 
Carolina,  converted  him  from  Calvinism  to  Episcopacy.  He 
became  a  most  zealons  and  devoted  Churchman,  although  he 
was  associated  in  teaching  in  North  Carolina  with  his  brother, 
a  Presbyterian  minister,  during  his  early  manhood. 

A.  D.  1818.  In  ISIS  he  married,  while  yet  a  layman, 
a  most  excellent  and  accomplished  woman — Mrs.  Ann  Yates 
Gholson,  of  Virginia. 

A.  D.  1826-1827.  On  the  8th  of  October,  1826,  Mr. 
Freeman  was  ordained  Deacon  by  Bishop  Ravenscroft,  in 
the  Episcopal  Chapel,  at  Raleigh,  in  the  thirty-seventh  year 
of  his  age,  and  about  eight  months  afterward  was  admitted  to 
the  Priesthood  by  Bishop  Ravenscroft,  on  the  20th  of  May, 
1827.      The  service  was  held   in   Christ   Church,   Ncwbern,. 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  101 

N.  C.  When  Bishop  Ravenscroft  died  at  Raleigh,  jST.  C, 
"Dr.  Freeman  ministered  at  his  bedside  and,  by  the  Bishop's 
special  request,  read  the  burial  service  over  his  remains."  Dr. 
freeman's  first  field  of  labor  embraced  Washington,  Dur- 
ham's Creek,  and  Zion  Chapel,  Xorth  Carolina.  At  the  time 
of  his  marriage,  before  he  became  a  member  of  any  Christian 
body,  his  wife  was  a  pious  and  consistent  member  of  the 
Methodist  communion,  to  which  she  adhered,  "after  he 
obtained  Baptism,  Confirmation  and  Communion  in  the 
Church."  But  in  a  year  or  two,  of  her  own  accord,  after  a 
diligent  examination  of  the  claims  of  the  Church,  she  was 
confirmed  by  Bishop  Moore,  of  Virginia,  and  was  thence- 
forward a  devoted  Churchwoman. 

A.  D.  1839-1841.  Dr.  Freeman  labored  eleven  years  at 
Christ  Church,  Raleigh,  X.  C,  where  he  left  a  host  of  loving 
and  appreciative  friends.*  From  there  he  removed  to  Colum- 
bia, Tenn.,  where  he  officiated  more  than  a  year,  when  the 
feeble  health  of  his  wife  obliged  him  to  make  a  change.  He 
next  labored  at  Trinity  Church,  Swedesborough,  IST.  J., 
which  place  he  held  from  April  to  November,  1841.  He 
then  accepted  a  call  to  Immanuel  Church,  New  Castle,  Del. 
"At  the  General  Convention  of  1841  it  was  determined  that 
a  Bishop  should  be  appointed  for  the  Southwest,  and  Dr. 
Freeman  having  been  nominated,  he  was  chosen,  almost  by 
acclamation.  A  delegate  to  that  convention  who  sat  in  the 
same  seat  with  him,  thus  graphically  describes  the  effect  pro- 
duced upon  the  good  man  when  his  name  was  announced  by 
the  secretary  as  having  been  sent  down  from  the  House  of 
Bishops  for  the  action  of  the  Lower  House: 

"  'Dr.  Freeman,  whose  hearing  was  a  little  impaired, 


*He   received   the  honorary   degree  of  D.   D.   from   Chapel    Hill,   the  Uni- 
versity of  North  Carolina,  in  1839. 


102  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

leaned  forward,  with  his  hand  behind  his  ear.  His  head 
began  to  sink  as  his  Christian  name  was  uttered;  and  by  the 
time  that  the  secretary  had  spoken  his  surname,  it  had 
drooped  below  the  top  of  the  pew,  and  when  the  message  was 
fully  concluded,  he  had  grasped  his  hat  and  was  passing  out 
of  the  Church.  On  reaching  his  boarding  house,  he  was  seized 
with  a  chill,  which  was  succeeded  by  high  fever,  and  he  was 
not  able  to  leave  his  room  for  several  days.' 

Here  the  exalted  piety  of  his  wife  took  effect,  as  the  fol- 
lowing incident,  related  by  Rev.  Dr.  jSTorton,  illustrates : 

"Mrs.  Freeman's  claim  to  distinction  among  the  many 
excellent  clergymen's  wives  in  the  Church  rests  mainly  upon 
her  missionary  zeal.  She  was  not  only  ready  to  give,  ac- 
cording to  her  ability,  to  the  support  of  missions,  but  was  will- 
ing to  sacrifice  (and  she  did  actually  sacrifice)  her  health, 
and  the  most  of  her  worldly  comforts  for  the  supposed  good 
of  the  cause.  When  her  husband  was  called  to  the  Mission- 
ary Episcopate  of  the  Southwest,  they  were  delightfully  and 
most  happily  situated  in  a  parish  that  perhaps  both  would 
have  preferred  to  almost  any  other  in  the  Church,  and  they 
had  just  completed  their  arrangements  for,  as  they  fondly 
hoped,  a  lifelong  residence  among  agreeable  and  most  affec- 
tionate parishioners.  The  call  came  upon  him  like  a  clap 
of  thunder,  and  he  felt  that  he  could  not  accept  it ;  and,  after 
twenty-four  hours'  deliberation  with  prayer,  he  had  made  up 
his  mind  that  he  must  decline  it.  The  distressed  look  with 
which  the  announcement  of  his  purpose  was  received  by  her, 
and  the  alarming  inquiry  which  she  made,  'Are  you  sure  you 
will  not  be  found  fighting  against  God  if  you  decline?' 
brought  him  to  a  pause ;  and,  aided  by  the  remonstrance  and 
persuasion  of  others,  led  him  ultimately  to  suffer  himself  to 
put  on  the  mitre,  although  he  knew  it  to  be  crowned  with 
thorns." 

A.  D.  1 844.  He  was  consecrated  as  the  Missionary 
Bishop  of  Arkansas,  Texas  and  the  Indian  Territory  of  the 
Southwest  in  St.  Peter's  Church,  Philadelphia,  on  Saturday, 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  103 

October  20,  184-1.  The  venerable  Bishop  Chase  acted  as 
consecrator,  being  assisted  by  Bishops  Doane,  Otey,  Hen- 
shaw,  Kemper,  Polk,  Lee,  Whittingham,  Elliott  and  Johns. 
"An  able  and  appropriate  sermon  was  preached  by  the  Bishop 
of  Georgia,  from  Isaiah  liv.  2,  3." 

A.  D.  1 875.  "It  may  be  remarked  that  during  the  four- 
teen years  of  his  Episcopate,  his  duties  caused  him  to  traverse 
a  territorial  region  that  is  now  (1875)  served  by  five  bishops, 
who,  all,  no  doubt  with  good  cause,  complain  of  the  vast 
extent  of  their  several  Dioceses.  Bishop  Freeman  traveled 
on  horseback,  over  the  territorial  extent  of  all  these  five  Dio- 
ceses, after  he  was  three  score  years  old,  the  hearty  and  robust 
young  clergymen  who  attempted  to  travel  with  him,  breaking 
down  by  their  efforts.  Thus  much  may  be  said  for  Bishop 
Freeman's  sturdy  JSTew  England  stock,  and  it  may  be  added 
for  his  old  England  stock." 

The  best  account  of  his  Episcopal  labors  is  given  by  the 
Bishop  himself,  a  portion  of  which  is  here  appended : 

"Having  yielded  to  the  solicitation  of  Bishop  Otey,  that 
I  would  undertake  a  visitation  to  the  Churches  in  Mississippi, 
on  my  way  from  Texas  to  Arkansas,  I  was  obliged  to  confine 
my  labors  in  Arkansas  to  those  portions  of  the  State  in  which 
our  missionary  operations  have  hitherto  been  conducted. 
This,  however,  was  nearly  all  that  I  expected,  from  the  late- 
ness of  the  season  when  I  set  out,  to  be  able  to  accomplish  on 
my  first  visitation.  The  points  visited  were  Little  Rock, 
Van  Buren,  Fort  Smith,,  Fayetteville,  Cane  Hill,  and  the 
headwaters  of  White  River.  At  Little  Rock  I  found  our 
missionary  laboring  under  a  slight  and  temporary  diseour- 
.  agement,  owing  to  the  late  strenuous,  and  but  too  successful 
efforts  of  one  of  the  many  modern  sects.  And,  regarding  this 
as  the  most  important  station  in  the  State,  Little  Rock  being, 
as  yet,  the  largest  town,  and,  at  the  same  time,  the  seat  of 
government,  I  yielded  to  the  entreaties  of  the  Rev.  Mr. 
Young,  the  missionary,  and  many  of  the  principal  members 


104  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

of  the  congregation,  and  remained  with  them  ten  or  twelve 
days,  preaching  ten  times,  and  confirming,  on  two  separate 
occasions,  nine  persons. 

Notwithstanding  the  discouraging  circumstances  just 
alluded  to,  however,  the  Church  is  growing  here  steadily,  and 
in  a  highly  satisfactory  ratio  of  progression.  The  services 
are  well  attended ;  the  congregation,  embracing  a  fair  pro- 
portion of  the  principal  citizens,  is  large  for  the  place,  and 
increasing,  and  the  missionary  commands  the  respect  and 
esteem  of  his  parishioners ;  and  were  the  worldly  circum- 
stances of  the  community  at  all  prosperous,  we  might  expect 
this  soon  to  be  stricken  from  the  list  of  missionary  stations. 
But,  unfortunately,  the  people  are  poor  and  unable  to  do 
much  for  the  support  of  a  minister,  and  the  probability  is 
that  for  some  time  to  come  a  full  missionary  appropriation 
will  be  necessary.  From  Little  Rock  I  was  compelled,  from 
the  low  stage  of  water  in  the  river,  to  make  the  journey  to 
Van  Buren  and  the  other  points  visited,  on  horseback,  a  dis- 
tance, going  and  returning,  of  450  miles ;  so  that  much  time 
was  necessarily  occupied  in  traveling.  To  Van  Buren  I  was 
accompanied  by  the  Rev.  Mr.  Young,  and  was  there  met  by 
the  Rev.  Mr.  Scull,  from  Fayetteville.  I  found  here  no 
communicants,  no  candidates  for  confirmation,  and,  I  may 
add,  no  congregation  proper.  The  missionary  has  officiated 
at  this  point,  on  alternate  Sundays,  in  a  house  of  worship 
common  to  all  religious  bodies,  but  to  a  mixed  assemblage,  of 
whom  it  is  difficult  to  say  what  number,  if  any,  consider 
themselves  as  Episcopalians.  We  held  services  here  five 
times.  I  preached  thrice,  and,  at  the  request  of  the  mission- 
ary, baptized  one  adult  and  six  children.  At  Fort  Smith, 
where  the  missionary  also  officiates,  as  I  understand,  on 
alternate  Sundays,  I  found  the  same  state  of  things  existing 
as  at  Van  Buren.  To  that  place  I  was  accompanied  by  the  Rev. 
Messrs.  Young,  McManus,  and  Scull,  and  we  held  two  ser- 
vices, which  were  well  attended,  particularly  by  the  officers 
of  the  United  States  army,  many  of  whom  were  present  in 
attendance  upon  a  court-martial.  I  preached  on  both  occa- 
sions, and  have  reason  to  believe  that  our  services  left  a  good 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  105 

impression.  From  Van  Bnren  I  proceeded,  attended  by  the 
Rev.  Mr.  Scull,  to  Fayetteville,  Washington  County.  At 
this  place  I  remained,  with  the  exception  of  two  days  at  Cane 
Hill,  enjoying  the  hospitality  of  Mr.  Scull  ten  days,  including 
two  Sundays,  having  been  prevented  by  high  waters  from 
getting  to  the  headwaters  of  White  River  (as  I  intended)  to 
pass  the  latter  of  them.  I  preached  in  Fayetteville,  in  a 
schoolroom,  six  times,  and  administered  the  Holy  Eucharist 
to  ten  persons,  of  whom  only  six  or  seven  belong  to  our  com- 
munion. At  Cane  Hill,  in  a  small  storeroom,  hastily  fitted  up 
for  the  occasion  by  the  personal  labor  of  General  Campbell 
and  Captain  Chew,  I  preached  twice  and  confirmed  three 
persons,  viz :  Captain  Chew,  his  wife,  and  their  oldest  son 
(originally  from  Fredericksburg,  Va.).  The  Church  at  this 
point  consists  at  present  of  but  two  families,  General  Camp- 
bell's and  Captain  Chew's ;  but  more  devoted,  warmhearted 
Church  people  I  have  seldom  met  with.  The  services  here 
were  well  attended,  and  it  was  evident  that  a  good,  I  hope,  a 
lasting,  impression  was  made  upon  the  plain  people,  of  whom 
the  congregation  was  composed,  and  I  felt  encouraged  to 
believe  that  the  regular  ministrations  of  one  who  could  give 
himself  to  the  work  would  be  eminently  fruitful  in  this  inter- 
esting neighborhood.  To  insure  the  keeping  alive,  in  some 
measure,  of  the  flame  which  has  been  here  enkindled  by  the 
occasional  visits  of  the  Rev.  Mr.  Scull,  I  licensed  Captain 
Chew  as  Lay  Reader,  who  has  promised  to  officiate  every  Sun- 
day in  their  little  hired  room  until  their  log  Church,  which 
they  are  about  to  commence,  is  finished.  There  are  now  in 
this  neighborhood  five  communicants. 

"At  the  headwaters  of  White  River  (Madison  County, 
thirty-five  miles  southeast  of  Fayetteville),  where  I  only  spent 
the  night,  I  confirmed,  in  his  own  house,  at  the  family  altar, 
William  McElroy.  He  and  his  wife  are  both  communicants, 
and  T  was  pleased  to  observe,  are  scrupulous  in  the  daily  per- 
formance of  family  devotion.  In  this  neighborhood  there 
are  three  or  four  communicants.  Among  them  is  Colonel 
Sumner,  a  patriarch  of  more  than  four  score  years,  an  emi- 
grant from  Vermont.       The  prospects  for  the  establishment 


106  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

and  spread  of  the  Church  in  this  Northwestern  and  moun- 
tainous region  of  Arkansas  appear,  confessedly,  not  to  be 
flattering.  Yet,  it  would;,  I  think,  scarcely  become  us  to 
abandon  the  field,  and  give  up  those  few  sheep  in  the  wilder- 
ness which  have  heretofore  been  folded,  with  so  much  care, 
to  the  mercy  of  the  wolves  of  the  mountain,  scattered  though 
they  be.  Though  the  progress  of  the  Church  in  that  region 
must,  from  the  nature  of  things,  be  very  slow  for  some  time 
to  come,  yet  I  doubt  not  that  the  labors  of  an  able  and  prudent 
missionary,  self-denying  and  capable  of  enduring  hardness 
as  a  good  soldier  of  Jesus  Christ,  would  in  a  few  years  be 
found  productive  of  much  fruit  to  the  honor  and  praise  of 
God's  holy  name,  and  the  edification  of  His  Church.  I 
have,  as  yet,  visited  no  part  of  the  Indian  Territory,  but  pur- 
pose visiting  some  portions  of  it  in  the  fall." 

A.  D.  1847.  At  the  General  Convention  of  1847  the 
Bishop's  first  triennial  report  shows  how  he  had  improved  the 
three  years  that  had  elapsed  since  his  consecration.  "Besides 
visiting  all  the  Churches  and  missionary  stations  within  his 
jurisdiction  thrice,  he  has  visited  Columbia  and  Brazoria,  in 
Brazoria  County,  Texas,  twice ;  Richmond  and  Velasco,  in 
the  same  State,  once ;  Cane  Hill,  Fayetteville,  and  Batesville, 
in  Arkansas,  twice;  Washington,  Spring  Hill,  Louisville, 
Helena,  Columbia,  and  jSTapoleon,  in  the  same  State,  once; 
and  Fort  Gibson,  in  the  Indian  Territory,  twice.  That  in 
m<  st  of  these  places  he  has  held  confirmation,  and  in  all  of 
them  performed  divine  service,  and  preached  at  each  visita- 
tion;  that  he  has  confirmed  166  persons,  baptized  seventy- 
eight  children  and  ten  adults,  consecrated  one  Church,  and 
preached  more  than  200  sermons.  To  this,  he  would  add 
that  in  the  performance  of  this  amount  of  duty,  he  has  been 
compelled  to  travel  more  than  18,000  miles.  The  number  of 
communicants  within   his  jurisdiction   he   reports  to  be,   as 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  107 

nearly  as  he  lias  been  ablo  to  ascertain,  200  in  Texas,  and 
seventy  in  Arkansas ;  whole  number  270." 

There  is  another  incident  related  by  Rev.  Dr.  Norton, 
which  reveals  one  striking'  characteristic  of  this  upright  man. 
At  the  General  Convention  of  185(5,  a  meeting  of  the  Sunday 
School  Union  and  Church  Book  Society  was  held  in  St. 
Andrew's  Church,  Philadelphia,  during  which  matters  of 
vital  importance  to  the  interests  of  the  Sunday  School  Union 
were  discussed. 

''After  several  hours'  debate  the  practical  part  began 
with  the  contribution  of  money  for  its  relief  and  benefit.  The 
Bishop  of  Maryland  was  instantly  on  his  feet  and  stated  what 
he  would  give;  nay,  more,  with  the  energetic  promptness 
peculiar  to  himself,  he  laid  down  the  money  then  and  there. 
Bishop  de  Lancey  and  the  two  Bishops  Potter,  and  others, 
followed  in  his  wake.  Then  a  portly,  dignified  clergyman, 
about  6  feet  in  height,  of  robust  and  vigorous  appearance, 
though  evidently  advancing  in  years,  went  to  the  secretary's 
table  and  put  his  name  down  for  $100.  It  was  Bishop  Free- 
man. When  this  wTas  done,  he  took  his  hat  and  cane  (the 
cane  which  Bishop  Ravenscroft  had  carried  in  his  day)  and 
quietly  passed  out  through  the  Vestry  door." 

Bishop  Freeman  was  greatly  sustained  in  his  mission- 
ary labors  by  his  excellent  wife,  whom  the  annalist  affection- 
ately remembers  as  a  punctilious  Churchwoman,  a  stately, 
refined,  and  cultivated  woman  and  worthy  helpmeet  for  a 
Bishop.  When  Bishop  Freeman  first  located  at  Little  Rock 
he  took  a  suite  of  rooms  in  one  of  the  handsome  brick  build- 
ings erected  by  Charles  Rapley,  merchant,  whose  name  is  on 
the  first  Vestry  list,  on  the  north  side  of  Markham  street, 
between  Scott  and  Main  streets.  The  first  floors  of  these 
buildings  were  occupied  by  dry  goods  merchants,  the  second 


108  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

and  third  floors  were  arranged  with  spacious"  parlors  and 
chambers  in  suites,  with  galleries  surrounding  the  inner 
courts.  The  staircases  to  these  stories  opened  from  hallways 
on  the  street,  with  balustrades  of  mahogany,  obtained  from 
Cuba,  where  Mr.  Rapley's  father  had  amassed  a  fortune. 
These  buildings  were  destroyed  by  fire  several  years  later. 
Charles  Rapley  was  a  member  of  the  first  Vestry  of  Christ 
Church,  but  afterwards  became  a  leading  member  of  the 
newly  organized  congregation  of  "the  Disciples  of  Christ," 
which  the  Bishop  denominates  "one  of  the  modern  sects." 
His  wife,  who  was  Ann  Bailor  Field,  also  seceded  from  the 
Episcopal  Church,  and  their  children  were  brought  up  in 
the  new  faith.  The  Bishop,  his  wife,  and  son  occupied  a 
suite  of  rooms  on  the  third  floor  of  the  eastern  building,  and 
were  greatly  appreciated  by  the  other  occupants  of  the  build- 
ing, all  of  whom  took  board  with  the  landlady,  the  widow 
Burnett.  Mrs.  Freeman  was  the  widow  of  Hon.  Thomas 
Gholson,  of  Gholsonville,  Brunswick  County,  Va.  She  was 
the  daughter  of  Colonel  William  Yates  and  granddaughter 
of  Rev.  Bartholomew  Yates. 

A.  D.  1817.  "Hon.  Thomas  Gholson,  son  of  Thomas 
Gholson,  Sr.,  was  born  at  Gholsonville,  Va.,  and  educated  at 
William  and  Mary  College,  Virginia.  He  married  Miss  Ann 
Yates  and  was  a  member  of  Congress  from  1812  to  1816.  He 
died  in  1817  or  1818,  four  or  five  years  after  the  receipt  of 
the  injury  from  a  gunshot  wound  of  the  chest,  in  the  war  of 
1812,  so-called.  He  was  acting,  during  a  recess  of  the  Con- 
gress, as  volunteer  aid,  on  the  staff  of  some  general,  whose 
name  escapes  me.  He  left  a  wife,  two  sons  and  a  daughter — 
my  father,  William  Yates  Gholson,  Thomas,  and  Cary  Ann. 
My  grandmother,  Mrs.  Ann  Yates  Gholson,  moved  to 
Raleigh,  X.  C,  after  the  death  of  her  husband,  and  there  met 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  109 

and  married  George  Washington  Freeman,  who  was  Rector 
of  a  parish  in  that  city.  He  was  afterward  made  Bishop  of 
Arkansas  and  Texas.  Soon  after  his  consecration  he 
removed  his  residence  to  Little  Rock,  Ark.,  where  mv  grand- 
mother and  he  died."* 

The  children  of  Hon.  Thomas  Gholson  and  Ann  Yates, 
his  wife,  were : 

Hon.  Win.  Yates  Gholson,  late  member  of  the  Supreme 
bench  of  Mississippi ;  Hon.  Thomas  Gholson,  member  of  the 
Tennessee  bar,  and  Cary  Ann,  who  married  her  cousin,  a  very 
promising  lawyer  of  Petersburg,  Va.,  and  had  two  daughters, 
Georgie  and  Cary  Ann  Gholson. 

The  children  of  Bishop  Freeman  and  Ann  Yates  Ghol- 
son, his  wife,  were : 

A.  D.  1819-1895.  1.  George  Russell  Freeman.  Born 
December  6,  1819,  in  Raleigh,  1ST.  C. ;  married  to  Kate  Wal- 
thall, of  Holly  Springs,  Miss.  She  was  the  daughter  of  the 
late  J.  B.  Walthall,  and  sister  of  Edward  Cary  Walthall, 
the  lately  deceased  United  States  Senator  from  Mississippi, 
who  sat  continuously  in  the  Senate  from  January,  1894,  to 
March,  1895.  He  served  in  Confederate  army  in  the  Civil 
War  as  major-general. 

2.  Andrew  Field  Freeman,  afterwards  Rector  of 
Christ  Church,  Little  Rock. 

A.  D.  1826.  3.  Charles  Edward  Freeman.  Born 
October,  1826,  in  ISTewberne,  1ST.  C,  of  whom  no  further 
accounts  have  been  obtained. 


♦Extract  from  a  letter  of  response  to  a  request  of  the  annalist  by  Dr.  S.  C. 
Gholson,  of  Holly  Springs,  Miss. 


110  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 


REV.  ANDREW  FIELD  FREEMAN. 

A.  D.  1822-1849.  Rev.  Andrew  Field  Freeman  suc- 
ceeded Rev.  William  T.  Saunders  in  charge  of  Christ  Church, 
in  1849,  and  served  as  the  first  elected  Rector  for  nine  years. 
He  was  born  in  Warrenton,  X.  C,  December  3,  1822,  and  was 
a  graduate  of  the  General  Theological  Seminary  of  Xew 
York,  in  1845.  Mr.  Freeman  was  ordained  Deacon  and 
Priest  by  the  Rt.  Rev.  Alfred  Lee,  D.  D.,  of  Delaware.  The 
last  ordination  occurred  in  1S45.  He  accompanied  his  parents 
to  Little  Rock,  where,  on  December  1,  1850,  he  married 
Frances  Ann  Ashley,  only  daughter  of  Hon.  Chester  Ashley, 
United  States  Senator  from  Arkansas.  This  was  an  ideal 
union,  and,  while  it  lasted,  a  blissful  one.  The  Bishop  and 
his  son  built  a  handsome  residence  on  lots  belonging  to  the 
bride  on  Holly  (Eighth)  and  Cumberland  streets,  now  owned 
by  the  widow  of  the  late  Hon.  George  H.  Van  Etten,  a  former 
member  of  Christ  Church  Vestry.  They  furnished  it  com- 
fortably and  tastefully  for  her  occupation.  She  did  not  live 
to  appropriate  it,  but  died  within  the  year,  universally 
lamented,  leaving  a  daughter. 

Both  families  were  prostrated  with  grief  at  this  sudden 
sinking  of  their  ship  of  life,  freighted  with  all  that  made  life 
beautiful.  Mrs.  Bishop  Freeman  did  not  long  survive.  She 
had  been  in  failing  health  after  exposures  in  a  tour  of  visita- 
tion through  Texas  with  her  husband,  and  this  great  sorrow 
was  too  much  for  her  strength.  "On  the  26th  of  March,  1856, 
the  Bishop  left  her,  with  hesitation  and  great  reluctance,  for 
a  visitation  of  Texas,  which  circumstances  rendered  highly 
important,  if  not  absolutely  necessary.  He  shortened  his 
visitation  as  much  as  possible  on  her  account;  and  after  an 


REV.  ANDREW  FIELD   FREEMAN. 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  Ill 

absence  of  two  months  and  fifteen  days,  returned,  to  find  her 
un  that  sick  bed  from  which  she  never  arose. 

A.  D.  1856.  He  arrived  on  Monday,  11th  of  June,  and 
in  a  week  from  that  day,  June  IS,  her  spirit  took  its  flight 
from  earth  to  "brighter  worlds  on  high."  She  died  in  the 
serene  faith  of  a  holy  immortality.  Her  funeral  took  place 
<ni  Wednesday  morning,  June  26,  1856,  from  the  Church,  the 
services  being  conducted  by  her  husband  and  son,  according 
to  her  own  request.     The  scene  was  most  pathetic. 

Both  father  and  son  being  thus  bereaved,  the  property 
on  Eighth  street  was  sold  and  a  house  on  Fifth  and  Scott 
streets  was  purchased.  Here  the  Bishop  died  April  29,  1858, 
in  the  seventieth  year  of  his  age. 

The  beautiful  tribute  which  the  Rev.  Dr.  Norton  quotes 
from  Bishop  Hawks's  address  to  the  Convention  of  Missouri 
in  May,  1858,  forms  a  most  fitting  conclusion  to  the  memoir 
of  this  distinguished  Bishop,  who  conferred  upon  the  annalist 
the  holy  rite  of  confirmation,  and  claimed  her  highest 
reverence. 

"As  a  subject  of  deep  interest  to  the  Protestant  Episco- 
pal Church  in  these  United  States,  and  one  which  has  called 
up  very  tender  emotions  in  my  bosom,  I  may  now  mention 
the  recent  departure  from  this  life  of  the  Rt.  Rev.  George 
Washington  Freeman,  D.  D.,  our  Missionary  Bishop  in  the 
Southwest.  At  an  advanced  age,  though  not  aged  in  his 
Episcopate,  after  thirteen  years  of  hard  and  unceasing 
struggle  for  the  Church  in  the  desolate  region  assigned  to 
him,  a  Christian  Bishop  has  gone  to  rest.  But  to  me,  the 
departed  was  something  more  than  a  Christian  Bishop.  In 
my  native  town  in  North  Carolina,  he  was  one  of  the  pre- 
ceptors of  my  early  youth,  before  my  entrance  upon  collegiate 
duties  as  a  student  of  the  University.  Boys  do  not  always 
remember  with  tenderness  the  teachers  who  have  had  the 
charge  of  their  youth  ;  yet  will  T  say  that  the  manliness,  truth- 


112  THE    ANNALS    OP    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

fulness,  and  consistency  of  this  good  man  claimed  the  love  of 
my  boyhood — that  manhood,  with  me,  only  mellowed  that 
love  into  softer  and  yet  deeper  hues,  until  professional  asso- 
ciation and  sympathy  fully  proved  to  me  that  the  affections 
of  my  boyhood  had  not  been  misplaced.  There  are  those 
companions  of  my  schoolboy  days  still  living  to  whose  bosoms 
the  tidings  of  his  death  will  bring  like  feelings  to  my  own; 
for  his  fearless  honesty,  his  hearty  sincerity,  his  ceaseless 
fidelity,  his  Christian  firmness^  and  his  unbending  principle, 
were  proverbial  with  us  all.  Well  do  I  remember  when  I  last 
met  him  at  the  time  of  our  late  General  Convention  in  Phila- 
delphia. In  company  with  another  of  his  former  pupils,  I 
called  upon  him.  We  talked  of  former  days.  Among  other 
things  he  showed  us  the  staff  upon  which  the  godly  and  gifted 
Ravenscroft  used  to  lean  as  he  walked,  and  which  had  been 
given  to  him  by  one  of  his  proselytes.  What  son  of  the 
Church  does  not  reverence  the  name  of  Ravenscroft,  the  first 
Bishop  of  North  Carolina  ?  Yet,  as  we  came  away,  we  felt 
and  rejoiced  that  the  staff  was  still  carried  by  one  as  honest 
and  as  true  as  Ravenscroft.  Of  the  late  good  Bishop  of  the 
Southwest  we  may  all  say,  'he  has  fought  a  good  fight,  he  has 
finished  his  course,  he  has  kept  the  faith,  henceforth  there  is 
laid  up  for  him  a  crown  of  righteousness.'  ' 

On  the  day  following  his  decease,  the  remains  of  Bishop 
Freeman  were  deposited  in  the  same  grave-  with  those  of  his 
beloved  wife. 

His  son,  Rev.  A.  F.  Freeman  had  marble  tablets  placed 
in  the  north  and  south  walls  of  the  chancel  of  the  first  Church 
in  memory  of  his  parents,  which  perished  with  the  Church. 
In  the  new  Church  a  Prayer  Desk  was  contributed  to  the 
chancel  furniture,  of  handsomely  carved  walnut,  having  a 
silver  plate  with  this  inscription : 

"In  memory  of  Rt.  Rev.  George  Washington  Freeman, 
consecrated  October  26,   1S44,  died  April  29,  1858." 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  113 

A.  D.  1858.  Four  months  after  the  death  of  his  father, 
July  8,  1858,  Rev.  A.  F.  Freeman  was  married  a  second  time 
to  Susan  E.  Dunlop,  daughter  of  James  Dunlop,  Esquire,  of 
Petersburg,  Ya. 

Previous  to  this,  he  had  resigned  the  Rectorship  of 
Christ  Church,  Little  Rock.  His  letter  of  resignation  is 
here  given  :* 

Little  Rock,  Ark.,  May  3,  1858. 
To  the  Wardens  and  Vestry  of  Christ  Church,  Little  Roch: 

Gentlemen — Impelled  by  the  state  of  my  health  to  relin- 
quish all  Parochial  duty  for  a  season,  I  do  hereby  resign  the 
Rectorship  of  Christ  Church,  to  take  effect  from  the  1st 
instant,  which  completes  the  first  half  of  the  ninth  year  of  my 
Rectorship. 

Respectfully, 

ANDREW  F.   FREEMAN. 

The  reply  of  the  Wardens  and  Vestry  was  as  follows : 

Little  Rock,  May  5,  1858. 

Reverend  and  Dear  Sir — Having  seen  your  letter  of  the 
3d  instant,  addressed  to  the  Wardens  and  Vestry  of  Christ 
Church,  of  Little  Rock,  the  undersigned  beg  leave  to  state, 
that  while  they  sincerely  sympathize  with  you  in  your  pres- 
ent deep  affliction,  and  acknowledge  the  propriety  of  your 
withdrawing  for  a  season  from  the  cares  and  labors  incident 
to  the  Rectorship  of  said  Church,  yet  having  an  abiding  confi- 
dence in  your  ability  to  perform  the  duties  of  the  charge 
advantageously  to  the  cause  of  Christ  and  acceptably  to  the 
congregation  when  the  remembrance  of  the  afflicting  dispen- 
sation shall  have  been  softened  by  time  and  your  health  fully 
restored,  which  we  hope  may  be  the  case  at  no  distant  period, 


*The  annalist  is  indebted  to  the  daughters  of  Warden  John  II.  Crease  for 
this  letter. 


114  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

we  trust  you  will  then  find  it  agreeable  to  resume  your  pas- 
toral duties  among  us,  and  in  the  meantime  retain  your 
position  as  Rector  of  our  Church. 

Very  truly,  your  friends,  etc., 

"  LUKE  E.  BARBER, 
JOHN  H.  CREASE, 

Wardens. 
DANIEL  RINGO, 
THOMAS    CHURCHILL, 
JOHN  WASSELL, 
H.  K  CASE, 
WI.  B.  WAIT, 
S.   H.   HEMPSTEAD, 
C.  F.  M.  POLAND, 
ROBERT  CLEMENTS, 
WI.  A.  CANTRELL. 

A.  D.  1 862.  Rev.  Mr.  Freeman  went  from  here  to 
Atlanta,  Ga.,  from  which  place  the  annalist  received  a  letter 
from  him,  dated  April  IS,  18(32,  concluding  with  these 
words : 

"I  should  like  above  all  things  to  look  in  upon  you  all 
once  more.  My  own  father  and  mother  lie  buried  in  your 
graveyard,  and  my  child  is  amongst  you.  You  may  be  sure 
for  these  reasons,  if  for  no  other,  my  mind  often  fondly  and 
sadly  turns  to  Little  Rock.  You  will  have  heard  of  our 
great  victories  before  this  reaches  you.  May  God  soon  restore 
peace  to  our  distracted  land.  With  my  kindest  regards  to 
your  husband  and  to  your  mother  and  sister,  I  remain, 
''Yours  faithfully, 

"A.  F.  FREEMAN." 

Later  he  went  to  Shelbyville,  Ky.,  then  to  Yincennes, 
Ind.,  and  finally  settled  at  Louisville,  Ky.,  where  he  died  in 
June,  1896.  The  daughter  referred  to  in  this  letter  was 
Mary  Ashley  Freeman,  who  married  the  Hon.   Sterling  R. 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  115 

Cockrill,  afterwards  Chief  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of 
Arkansas.      Their  children  are  : 

1.  Ashley.  Married  Jennie,  fourth  daughter  of  Pro- 
fessor and  Mrs.  James  Mitchell. 

2.  Annie  McDonald.  Married  Maxwell  Coffin,  presi- 
dent of  the  Bank  of  Little  Rock. 

3.  Sterling  R.   Cockrill.      Not  married. 

4.  Emmett,  (5)  Garland,  (6)  Freeman,  minors.  One 
infant  daughter,  Mary.  died.  There  are  two  grandchildren, 
James  Mitchell  Cockrill  and  Margaret  Coffin,  who  died 
early. 

Of  the  second  marriage,  a  daughter  also  was  born, 
Fanny  Ashley,  named  for  the  first  wife,  who  married  Mr. 
Carothers,  of  Bardstown,  Ky. 

Mr.  Freeman  was  a  person  of  studious  habits  and 
reserved  manner,  with  a  countenance  of  purity,  which  ob- 
tained for  him  the  title  of  "St.  John"  by  his  admirers.  His 
simplicity  and  truth  of  character  were  often  misconstrued 
into  austerity,  hut  with  those  who  understood  him,  there  was 
absolute  confidence  in  the  gentleness  of  his  nature  and  kind- 
ness of  purpose.  The  Church  flourished  greatly  during  his 
incumbency. 

The  organist  at  this  time  was  Dr.  Ben  F.  Scull,  who 
was  a  musician  of  first  rank.  His  choir  was  composed  of 
Miss  Blanche  Scott  (afterwards  Sokolski),  Miss  Laura 
Crease  (Lewis),  Miss  Eliza  Tucker  (Beebe),  Miss  Mary 
Ellen  Tucker  (Ives-Strong),  Miss  Maggie  Reyburn  (Peay), 
and  Miss  Arbadoo  Gibson  (Farelly),  Messrs.  Wm.  E.  Ashley, 
D.  C.  Fulton,  Henry  Ashley,  Arlow  Farmin,  and  John 
Wassell.  Dr.  Scull  afterwards  married  "Jamie,"  the 
second  of  the  five  beautiful  Misses  Revburn. 


116  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

A.  D.  1858.  The  last  official  act  of  lit.  Rev.  G.  W. 
Freeman,  as  Missionary  Bishop  of  Arkansas,  occurred  in 
January,  1S5S,  and  is  described  in  a  daily  paper  at  Little 
Rock  by  an  eyewitness,  a  copy  of  which  has  been  furnished 
the  annalist,  and  appears  in  the  account  given  later  in  the  life 
of  Bishop  Wingfield.* 

A.  D.  1 858.  As  has  been  related,  Bishop  Otey  was  ap- 
pointed to  the  office  made  vacant  by  the  death  of  Bishop 
Freeman,  by  the  Senior  Bishop  of  the  Church,  Thomas 
Church  Brownell,  D.  D.,  LL.  D.,  Bishop  of  Connecticut,  in 
1858.  In  his  visitation  as  Bishop  of  Arkansas  during  that 
year,  his  last  performance  of  the  rite  of  confirmation  took 
place.  Mrs.  Elvira  Cummins  Adams  was  the  last  person 
confirmed  in  the  first  Episcopal  Church. 

A.  D.  1840-1842.  She  was  the  widow  of  Dr.  W.  W. 
Adams,  a  graduate  of  the  medical  college  at  Amherst,  Mass., 
to  whom  she  was  married  in  1842.  He  was  for  many  years- 
a  practicing  physician  in  Little  Hock.  She  was  born  in 
Jefferson  County,  Ivy.,  near  Louisville,  in  1820,  and  came  to 
Arkansas  in  1840.  She  had  four  distinguished  brothers, 
William  and  Ebenozer,  shining  lights  at  the  bar  of  Little 
Rock  before  the  war ;  Dr.  David  Cummins,  a  distinguished 
physician  of  Louisville,  Ky.,  and  John  Cummins,  who  lost 
his  life  while  fighting  for  the  independence  of  Texas. 

Her  devotion  to  the  Episcopal  faith  never  wavered.  She 
was  a  regular  and  generous  contributor  to  the  cause  of  the 
Church.  With  refined  grace  of  manner  and  well-stored 
mind,  she  was  at  all  times  an  ornament  to  society.  In  the 
south  wall  of  the  new  Church  is  a  window,  donated  by  her, 
representing  our  Lord  as  the  great  physician,  healing  the  sick 
of  the  palsy,  grouped  with  three  other  figures,  in  "Loving 
i  ^emory  of  W.  W.  Adams."       She  was  a  childless  wife,  but 

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THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  117 

several  nieces  and  nephews  survive,  who  will  cherish  her 
memory  as  an  example  of  rare  virtue.  She  died  December 
31,  1898,  and  on  Sunday  afternoon  was  laid  beside  her  hus- 
band in  Mount  Holly  Cemetery,  sincerely  mourned  by  a  legion 
of  friends. 


MRS.  ELIZABETH-RECTOR  (BEALL)  HEMPSTEAD. 

A.  D.  1841-1858.  Among  the  first  acquaintances  of  the 
writer  in  Little  Rock,  in  1849,  was  Mrs.  Elizabeth-Rector 
(Beall)  Hempstead,  wife  of  General  S.  H.  Llempstead,  who 
lived  on  lower  Markham  street,  then  the  fashionable  residence 
street  of  the  capital.  She  became  the  wife  of  General  Samuel 
H.  Hempstead  at  Little  Rock  in  1841,  having  formerly  lived 
at  Bardstown,  Ky.  General  Hempstead  was  distinct  in  the 
galaxy  of  legal  lights,  that  has  been  claimed  to  be  the  most 
brilliant  in  the  records  of  the  State.  He  was  a  Vestryman  of 
the  ( 'liurch  in  1858,  during  the  Rectorship  of  Rev.  A.  F.  Free- 
man. His  beautiful  wife  wTas  an  acknowledged  leader  in 
society,  where  her  influence  for  sincerity,  kindliness,  loyalty 
to  her  friends,  and  generous  hospitality,  which  was  nobly  pro- 
moted by  her  husband,  has  been  felt  to  this  day.  Later  they 
purchased  and  occupied  the  large  two-story  brick  house,  built 
in  colonial  style,  which  crowned  the  hill  on  Walnut  street 
(Fourth)  in  the  eastern  part  of  the  city.  This  had  been 
erected  by  Richard  C.  Byrd,  president  of  Arkansas  Senate  in 
1818-1849,  and  acting  governor  of  the  State  in  the  brief  inter- 
regnum after  the  resignation  of  Governor  Thomas  S.  Drew 
and  the  inauguration  of  his  successor,  John  Selden  Roane. 
Having  renovated  and  embellished  this  home,  General  and 
Mrs.  Hempstead  made  it  one  of  the  most  elegant  and  attractive 
in  the  city.       Not  a  vestige  of  it  remains,  except  the  site,  a  part 

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118  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

of  which  is  now  occupied  by  the  Forest  Grove  School.  General 
Hempstead  died  in  18 62.  His  wife  survived  him  several 
years,  and  the  memory  of  this  noble  woman,  whose  deeds  of 
charity  were  seldom  known  to  other  than  her  God,  still  lingers, 
to  embellish  that  of  the  husband,  whom  she  so  sincerely 
mourned.  To  the  emigrant  camps,  so  frequently  set  like  a 
white  village  in  the  valley  below  her  home,  she  appeared  as 
an  angel  of  mercy,  as  she  passed  in  and  out,  accompanied  by 
her  servant,  bearing  delicacies  for  the  sick.  A  family  of  inter- 
esting children  was  born  to  this  worthy  pair :  Beall,  Carl, 
Albert,  Fay,  Roy,  Lena,  Lee,  and  Shelby,  all  of  whom  were 
baptized  members  of  the  Church.  Of  the  three  brothers  who 
survive,  Messrs.  Beall,  Fay,  and  Roy,  Mr.  Fay  Hempstead, 
poet  and  historian,  is  the  only  one  married.  His  wife  was 
Miss  Gertrude  O'Neale,  of  Virginia.  Their  children  are 
Carrie,  Samuel,  Lindsay,  Evelyn,  Janet,  Beall,  and  Robert 
O'Neal.  Mrs.  S.  H.  Hempstead's  niece,  Miss  Ada  Beall  Coch- 
rane, became  the  wife  of  Rev.  T.  B.  Lee,  former  Rector  of 
Christ  Church,  and  now  Rector  of  St.  David's  Church,  Austin, 
Texas,  whose  biography  appears  in  these  annals. 

A.  D.  1 858.  Bishop  Freeman  was  the  connecting  link 
between  Christ  Church  and  the  Northern  District  of  Cali- 
fornia, in  1858,  by  the  Episcopal  act  of  ordination,  of  one 
who  is  affectionately  remembered  by  the  old  citizens. 


RT.  REV.  JOHN  HENRY  DUCACHET  WINGFIELD,  D.  D.,  LL.  D..  D.  C.  L. 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  119 


RT.  REV.  JOHN  HENRY  DUCACHET  WINGFIELD, 
D.  D.,  LL.  D.,  D.  C.  L., 

MISSIONARY   BISHOP   OF   NORTHERN   CALIFORNIA. 

Consecrated  December  2,  1874,  in  St.  Paul  Church, 
Petersburg,  Va.  Died  Jul}'  27,  1898,  at  his  home,  St.  Augus- 
tine College,  Benicia,  Cal. 

On  Friday,  June  3,  1898,  the  annalist  addressed  a  letter 
to  Bishop  Wingfield,  asking  for  some  notes  of  his  residence  in 
Little  Rock,  and  his  connection  with  Christ  Church,  where  he 
was  ordained  Deacon  by  Rt.  Rev.  G.  W.  Freeman,  in  1858. 
In  the  issue,  August  4,  1898,  of  the  Southern  Churchman  of 
Richmond,  Va.,  under  the  article  "Northern  California,"  I 
read  the  announcement  of  his  death  with  grieved  surprise. 

On  August  16  a  letter  was  received  from  his  widow,  Mrs. 
Anne  M.  D.  Wingfield,  enclosing  notices  of  his  death,  with  his 
picture  and  the  following  postal  card  : 

St.  Augustine  College, 
Benicia,  Cal.,  August  11,  1898. 

I  send  you  by  this  mail  a  photograph  and  some  papers, 
and  as  soon  as  I  can  find  cuttings  from  old  Little  Rock  papers, 
will  copy  and  send  them,  together  with  a  letter  written  to  you 
by  Bishop  Wingfield  in  answer  to  yours.  Pardon  this  long- 
delay. 

ANNE  M.  D.  W. 

On  August  17,  1898,  Mrs.  Wingfield  again  wrote,  enclos- 
ing his  letter  and  a  copy  of  the  newspaper  clipping  from  a 
Little  Rock  paper.* 


*The  letter  and  clipping  from  newspaper  are  here  appended. 


120  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

St.  Augustine  College, 
Benicia,  Cal.,  August  17,  1898. 

My  Dear  21  is.  Cantrell : 

Some  days  ago  I  sent  you  a  photograph  of  my  husband, 
also  newspapers  containing  notices  of  his  death,  which 
occurred  July  27.  The  enclosed  letter  was  written  by  him 
to  you  on  June  27.  I  have  not  sent  it  to  you  because  he  asked 
me  to  copy  whatever  I  could  find  in  the  form  of  a  newspaper 
clipping,  taken  from  an  old  Little  Rock  paper.  His  letter 
may  be  difficult  to  read,  but  I  am  very  sure  you  will  prize  it, 
and  more  especially  as  his  dear  body  is  n'ow  laid  to  rest  in 
Elandford  Cemetery,  at  Petersburg,  Va.  I  have  a  long  letter 
from  my  sister,  telling  me  of  his  burial. 

When  he  fell  on  the  floor,  stricken  with  paralysis,  on  May 
23,  1896,  I  made  desperate  efforts  to  help  him,  thinking  he 
had  fainted.  I  soon  found  that  both  my  hands  were  sprained 
and  helpless.  Rheumatism  settled  in  them,  and  I  have  not 
been  able  to  use  them  for  even  writing,  without  suffering  very 
much.  Otherwise  I  should  write  more  at  length  and  give  the 
particulars  of  his  last  hour.  His  death  was  unexpected  after 
all  his  long,  patient,  weary  time  of  suffering.  His  mind  was 
deranged  for  a  year  lacking  two  days,  and  was  fully  restored. 
You  can  see  from  his  letter  how  his  memory  has  clung  to  him. 
He  has  always  said  he  believed  his  body  would  be  restored 
suddenly,  and  for  some  weeks  past  had  seemed  so  well  and  so 
hopeful  that  I  really  believed  he  would  get  well.  But,  with- 
out any  premonitary  symtoms,  his  heart  suddenly  failed — he 
did  not  suffer,  but  died  quietly,  like  as  of  one  going  off  in 
sleep. 

A  young  clergyman  is  a  member  of  my  household,  and  I 
have  gotten  him  to  copy  the  newspaper  clipping.  I  found  it 
pasted  in  a  blank  book,  and  it  was  the  only  one  from  a  Little 
Rock  paper — the  title  was  not  given. 

Let  me  know,  please,  whether  the  photograph  and  news- 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  121 

papers  reached  you.      And  now,  I  must  close,  my  dear  Mrs. 
Cantrell,  with  all  good  wishes  for  you. 
Faithfully  yours, 
ANNE  M.  DANDRIDGE  WINGFIELD. 

Copied  from  a  newspaper  clipping  from  a  blank  book 
containing  scraps,  belonging  to  Bishop  Wingfield. — Annie 
M.  I).  Wingfield. 

Little  Rock,  January  18,  1858. 

Messrs.  Editors — It  becomes  my  pleasing  duty  to  inform 
you  of  an  ordination  in  Arkansas.  This  event  was  of  singu- 
lar interest,  from  the  fact  that  it  was  the  first  in  the  State, 
except  one,  and  the  first  ordination  of  a  Deacon  belonging  to 
this  ecclesiastical  jurisdiction.  On  the  second  Sunday  after 
Epiphany,  the  Rt.  Rev.  Missionary  Bishop  of  the  Southwest 
admitted  to  the  order  of  Deacons  Mr.  J.  H.  D.  Wingfield, 
principal  of  the  Ashley  Institute.  There  were  present  the 
Rev.  A.  F.  Freeman,  Rector  of  the  Parish ;  the  Rev.  Otis 
Hackett,  Missionary  at  Helena,  and  the  Rev.  W.  C.  Stout,  of 
the  Diocese  of  Mississippi.  The  morning  service  was  read 
by  the  Rector,  assisted  by  Mr.  Stout.  The  ordination  sermon 
was  preached  by  Mr.  Hackett,  from  Acts  xxviii.  22.  It  was 
an  able  argument  in  behalf  of  the  Church,  and  a  strong  defense 
against  numerous  popular  prejudices.  A  painful  interest 
was  given  to  the  occasion  by  the  feebleness  of  the  Bishop,  who 
was  conducted  from  his  room,  in  his  robes,  during  the  sermon, 
his  health  and  strength  not  being  sufficient  to  sustain  him 
through  the  whole  service.  The  venerable  Bishop,  after  thir- 
teen years  of  hard  service  in  this  State,  leaving  his  sick  room 
to  ordain  the  first  Deacon,  is  a  picture  to  look  on.  Should  he 
not  have  the  sympathy  and  prayers  of  his  brethren  ?  No  one 
out  of  this  field  of  labor  knows  what  hardness  the  Bishop  has 
had  to  endure.  And  now  that  he  is  broken  in  health  and 
oppressed  by  his  heavy  charge,  shall  he  not  have  help  ?  He 
has,  at  no  time,  had  laborers  to  fill  the  places  that  were  crying 
to  him  for  the  services  of  the  Church.  Fields  have  been  ripe 
to  the  harvest,  but  there  was  no  one  to  reap. 


122  THE    ANNALS    OP    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

In  the  afternoon  the  Rev.  Mr.  Wing-field,  the  newmade 
Deacon,  put  on  his  harness,  and  after  service  by  Mr.  Ilackett, 
assisted  by  Mr.  Stout,  preached  from  Acts  xvi.  34,  a  discourse 
giving  much  promise  of  future  usefulness.  Mr.  Wingfield  is 
the  son  of  the  Rev.  John  Wingfield,  Rector  of  Trinity  Church, 
Portsmouth,  Va.  He  was  admitted  a  candidate  in  Virginia, 
and  after  pursuing  his  studies  some  time,  was  transferred  to 
this  jurisdiction.  We  trust  that  a  field  of  great  usefulness  is 
before  him,  and  that  he  is  the  pioneer  of  the  many  that  shall 
follow  in  his  steps. 

At  night,  after  service  by  Mr.  Wingfield,  Mr.  Stout 
preached  from  Luke  xvi.  23,  24,  on  the  certainty  of  future 
punishments ;  and  warning  men  against  the  seductions  of 
"science,  falsely  so-called."  The  day  was  altogether  a  joyful 
one  to  those  who  pray  for  the  prosperity  of  our  Zion  in  these 
parts. 

From  some  unaccountable  reason,  Arkansas  has  been  ap- 
parently avoided  by  clergy  seeking  locations  in  the  Southwest. 
The  State  is  healthy.  (See  the  census  report  on  this  matter.) 
Society  is  as  good  as  it  can  be  without  the  Church.  The  peo- 
ple are  kind  and  cordial,  and  no  one  can  be  here  long  without 
forming  strong  attachments.  There  are  many  places  where 
the  services  of  a  minister  are  greatly  desired,  and  a  competent 
support  can  be  had.      Brethren,  "come  over  and  help  us  !" 

VIATOR. 

St.  Augustine  College, 
Benicia,  Cal.,  Monday,  June  27,  1898. 

To  Mrs.  W.  A.  Cantrell,  care  Dr.  W.  A.  Cantrell.  Little  Rock, 
Ark. : 

My  Dear  Old  Friend — Your  much  esteemed  letter  is  at 
hand  and  I  take  advantage  of  the  opportunity  to  write  a  brief 
reply.  I  am  delighted  to  receive  it  and  to  know  that  I  still 
live  in  the  memory  of  my  old  Little  Rock  friends,  who  are 
kind  enough  to  remember  me  when  I  have  been  separated 
from  them  for  forty  years.  Yours  is  the  first  letter  I  have 
received  from  that  city  since  I  left  there,  with  the  exception 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  123 

of  one  from  my  old  friend,  Langstrouth,  with  whom  I  lived, 
yon  may  recollect,  over  the  bank,  and  one  from  the  Rev.  Mr. 
Carnahan,  when  he  was  Rector  of  Christ  Church.  Strange 
to  say,  I  have  never  met  with  any  people  from  your  city  except 
General  Albert  Pike  and  Bishop  Pierce,  both  of  whom  were 
so  full  of  their  own  business  that  I  could  never  learn  anything 
of  my  old  friends  and  acquaintances.  My !  what  a  flood  of 
recollections  is  let  loose  by  your  valuable  letter.  It  seems 
like  a  dream  that  I  ever  went  to  Little  Rock  and  the  two  years 
I  spent  there  were  two  of  the  happiest  of  my  life.  But  to 
business!  You  ask  me  for  a  history  of  myself.  I  will  try 
not  to  weary  you. 

A.  D.  1856-1897.  In  1858  I  was  a  student  of  Divinity 
in  the  Theological  School,  near  Alexandria,  Va.,  and  in  the 
summer  vacation  went  on  a  trip  to  Niagara  Falls.  From 
some  imprudence  I  took  a  violent  cold  which  left  me  with  a 
wretched  cough  and  this  was  followed  by  slight  hemorrhages. 
•  fust  at  this  juncture  Colonel  Wm.  Ashley  was  looking  for 
some  one  to  take  charge  of  his  school  for  his  son  Chester,  called 
the  Ashley  Institute.  His  brother  Henry,  who  was  a  class- 
mate of  mine  at  St.  Timothy's  College,  near  Baltimore,  where 
Ave  had  graduated  together,  recommended  me  to  the  place  of 
principal.  I  accepted  and  took  charge  in  October,  1856,  and 
continued  to  pursue  my  theological  studies  under  the  Rev. 
Andrew  Freeman.  On  the  16th  of  January,  later,  1858,  the 
Rev.  Otis  Hackett,  of  Helena,  Ark.,  and  the  Rev.  Wm.  C. 
Stout,  of  the  Diocese  of  Mississippi,  arrived  at  Little  Rock 
and  I  was  examined  for  Deacon's  orders,  and  the  next  day 
Bishop  Freeman  came  across  the  street  from  his  residence  to 
ordain  me.  In  the  afternoon  I  preached  my  first  sermon  and 
continued  to  assist  the  Rector  until  June,  1858,  when  I  re- 
turned to  Virginia,  reaching  Portsmouth,  Va.,  July  4,  and 
going  at  once  into  the  pulpit  to  assist  my  father,  the  Rector 
of  Trinity  Church  in  that  city. 

The  following  summer,  1859,  I  passed  my  examinations 
for  Priest's  orders  and  was  married  to  Miss  Mary  Tmogene 
Chandler,  the  youngest  daughter  of  Surgeon  John  Chandler, 


124  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

United  States  navy.  Her  sister  is  now  the  wife  of  Rev.  Dr. 
Beard,  of  Birmingham,  Ala.  I  remained  Associate  Rector  in 
Portsmouth,  Va.,  until  1863,  when  I  fell  into  the  hands  of 
"Beast  Butler/'  who  condemned  me  to  three  months'  imprison- 
ment in  the  penitentiary  and  to  wear  ball  and  chain  and  sweep 
the  streets  of  Norfolk,  Va.  As  soon  as  I  was  released  from 
prison  I  went  with  my  wife  and  babe  to  a  country  parish, 
near  Bel  Air,  Harford  County,  Md.  On  September  17, 
1864,  the  mother  died  of  galloping  consumption,  leaving  me 
with  a  lovely  boy  of  four  months.  If  he  were  alive  to-day  he 
would  be  35  years  old,  but  alas !  he  was  spared  to  me  only  to 
be  murdered  on  the  streets  of  Benicia,  July  8,  1889 ! 

Three  of  my  brothers  were  in  the  army  of  Confederate 
States,  one  a  colonel  on  General  Blanchard's  staff,  the  second 
on  General  R.  E.  Lee's  staff  as  inspector  general  of  all  his 
hospitals,  and  the  third,  my  youngest  brother,  was  a  lieuten- 
ant in  one  of  the  Norfolk  companies.  I  was  enlisted  in  a 
company  but  drilled  only  once,  while  I  served  as  chaplain  on 
two  occasions  to  the  soldiers  in  camp.  All  the  rest  of  the 
time  I  was  not  confined  in  prison,  I  held  continuous  services 
in  Portsmouth,  Va.,  and  in  Harford  County,  Md. 

In  January,  1866,  I  returned  to  assist  my  father  as 
Associate  Rector  of  Trinity  Church,  Portsmouth,  Va.,  and 
remained  with  him  two  years,  when,  in  1868,  I  accepted  a  call 
to  Petersburg,  Va.  In  1866  I  married  Miss  Lee,  of  Bel  Air, 
Md.  We  were  very  happy  in  Petersburg  and  St.  Paul's  con- 
gregation of  that  city,  but  alas !  death  entered  my  home  and 
robbed  me  of  my  wife,  in  August,  1872.  I  received  several 
calls  while  there.  One  in  New  York  City,  one  in  New  Orleans, 
one  in  Galveston,  and  one  in  Savannah,  but  finally  a  call  from 
Trinity  Church,  San  Francisco,  came  and  it  seemed  that  I 
must  go.  So  I  married  a  widow — Mrs.  Anne  Garland,  of 
Mecklenburg  County,  Va.,  and  went,  on  June  18,  1874,  to 
take  charge  of  my  new  field  on  the  Pacific  Coast.  In  the 
fall  of  that  year  I  was  elected  Bishop  of  Northern  California, 
and  in  April,  1875,  began  my  work  here. 

I  presume  you  have  been  wondering  why  I  should  write 
to  you  with  a  pencil.       Well,  my  dear  old  friend,  I  will  tell 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  125 

you.  All  my  life  I  have  enjoyed  most  excellent  health ;  in 
fact,  I  fancied  that  nothing  could  break  me  down.  My  nerves 
seemed  to  be  made  of  steel,  and  my  muscles  of  adament ;  so  I 
gave  myself  up  to  hard  and  continuous  work,  until  at  last,  on 
the  23d  of  May,  1896,  I  fell  on  the  floor,  stricken  with 
paralysis."  My  whole  left  side  was  suddenly  rendered  utterly 
helpless.  I  was  in  a  condition  of  entire  unconsciousness. 
The  doctor  said  I  was  paralyzed  from  overwork.  I  had  on 
that  day  performed  my  fifteen  thousandth  service ;  and  do 
you  wonder  that  I  was  paralyzed  ?  I  remained  unconscious 
until  May  21,  1897,  on  the  morning  of  which  day  I  woke  from 
my  sleep — once  more  myself.  Thus,  nearly  a  whole  year  I 
knew  nothing  and  recognized  nobody.  Still  my  imagination 
was  active,  for  I  thought  I  was  traveling  all  over  the  world 
and  reviewing  my  life.  My  wife  says  I  talked  of  all  my  old 
friends  who  had  lived  in  the  various  places  where  I  had  spent 
my  early  life.  She  says  I  talked  of  you  and  all  my  other 
Little  Rock  friends.  It  all  seemed  as  real  as  though  I  had 
actually  talked  with  them  in  the  flesh. 

On  the  7th  of  June,  1897,  I  was  brought  down  stairs  and 
have  ever  since  occupied  my  parlor  for  a  chamber.  I  suppose 
I  must  be  getting  better,  but  my  progress  has  been  slow — 
scarcely  perceptible.  My  appetite  is  very  good,  and  I  have 
discharged  my  doctor,  retaining  only  the  continuous  services 
of  a  trained  nurse.  My  wife  watched  me  with  constant  care, 
and  I  expect  to  pull  through  in  the  course  of  time.  It  requires 
of  me  much  patience,  but  I  am  hopeful  and  cheerful.  Bishop 
Graves,  of  the  Platte,  has  been  sent  to  relieve  me  and  perform 
all  Episcopal  offices,  so  that  my  jurisdiction  has  not  suffered 
very  much.  If  the  good  Lord  should  be  pleased  to  restore 
me  soon  to  health  and  permit  me  to  go  to  Washington  City 
next  October  to  attend  the  meeting  of  General  Convention, 
I'll  promise  to  go  by  way  of  Little  Rock  and  stop  off  a  day 
to  see  my  old  friends.  At  present  it  looks  dubious,  however, 
and  I  can  scarcely  hope  to  be  able  to  accomplish  my  fond 
desire,  but  if  I  am  well  enough  to  travel  I'll  surely  make  the 


*Oansed  by  cerebral  bemorrbage. 


126  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

effort  to  go.  My  only  child,  my  daughter,  Mrs.  Jas.  Hamil- 
ton Scott,  who  lives  in  Richmond,  has  exacted  of  me  a  promise 
to  that  effect. 

I  am  very  sorry  to  learn  that  Christ  Church  was  burned 
in  1873.  If  you  have  a  photograph  of  the  old  Church  and 
its  successor,  may  I  take  the  liberty  of  asking  you  to  send  me 
a  copy  ?  My  wife  promises  to  send  you  copies  of  some  clip- 
pings of  newspapers  which  I  preserved.  I  think  they  will 
interest  you  in  making  youi  book.  Bishop  Pierce  has  a  book 
called  "the  Episcopate  of  America."  Ask  him  to  let  you 
see  it.  Bishop  Perry,  of  Iowa,  got  it  up  a  few  years  ago,  and 
I  am  sure  yon  will  be  pleased  with  it.  Ask  him  if  he  has 
another  book  by  Rev.  Mr.  Batterson  called  "The  American 
Episcopate,"  also.  My  wife  says  I  must  stop,  but  I  cannot 
close  without  asking  after  all  the  people  of  Little  Rock,  in 
whom  you  may  think  I  am  interested.  Is  General  Churchill 
alive  and  his  wife  ?  If  so  please  tell  him,  I  still  prize  a  fine 
Prayer  Book,  which  he  gave  me  on  my  ordination  day.  I 
would  like  to  inquire  after  Dr.  Hooper.  I  saw  his  name  as 
a  member  of  the  Medical  Society  which  met  in  San  Erancisco 
a  few  years  ago,  and  intended  to  hunt  him  up,  but  was  pre- 
vented doing  so.  I  wonder  sometimes  if  my  old  friends  are 
still  living — the  Ashleys,  the  Waits,  the  Reardons,  and  many 
others  I  cannot  recall  now.  Please  write  to  me,  and  believe 
me,  with  love  to  everybody  that  remembers  me. 
Your  affectionate  friend, 

J.  H.  D.  WIXGFIELD. 

GONE  TO  HIS  REWARD. 

BISHOP   J.    H.    D.    WTNGFIELD  IS   NO   MORE THE    HEAD   OF   THE 

EPISCOPAL    CHURCH    OF    THE    NORTHERN    DISTRICT 
OF  CALIFORNIA  SUCCUMBS  TO  PARALYSIS. 

This  community  was  startled  on  hearing  the  sad  news  of 
the  death  of  the  Rt.  Rev.  J.  H.  D.  Wingfield,  which  occurred 
Wednesday  afternoon  at  4  :45  o'clock. 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH  127 

Notwithstanding  the  fact  that  he  had  been  sick  for  the 
past  two  years,  caused  by  a  stroke  of  paralysis,  it  was  generally 
supposed  that  he  was  in  a  fair  way  To  recovery. 

The  death  of  Bishop  Wingfield  is  a  great  loss  to  the 
Church,  of  which  he  has  been  a  prominent  member  since  1853. 
He  had  filled  the  position  up  to  the  time  of  his  death — Mis- 
sionary Bishop  of  the  Northern  District  of  California — hav- 
ing been  elected  to  this  position  in  1874.  A  short  resume  of 
his  life  will  be  of  interest  to  his  many  friends  on  this  Coast: 

Bishop  Wingfield  was  a  native  of  Portsmouth,  Va., 
where  he  was  born  September  2-1,  1833,  and  educated  at  first 
privately  and  then  at  St.  Timothy's,  Maryland,  at  which  in- 
stitution he  was  for  two  years  an  instructor.  He  was  gradu- 
ated at  William  and  Mary  College  in  1853.  He  pursued  the 
vocation  of  a  teacher  until  1855,  when  he  spent  a  year  at  the 
Theological  Seminary  of  Virginia,  and  then  resumed  his  pro- 
fessional work  as  the  head  of  the  Ashley  Institute,  in  Little 
I  lock,  Ark.  He  was  ordained  Deacon  in  Christ  Church, 
Little  Rock,  January  17,  1858,  by  Bishop  Freeman,  and  ad- 
vanced to  the  Priesthood  by  Bishop  Johns,  in  the  Chapel  of 
the  Virginia  Seminary,  July  1,  1859. 

After  serving  as  a  curate  to  the  Rector  of  Christ  Church, 
Little  Rock,  he  assisted  his  venerable  father,  the  Rev.  John 
H.  Wingfield,  in  Trinity  Church,  Portsmouth,  Va.,  and  sub- 
sequently served  in  Maryland  at  Christ  Church,  Rock  Spring, 
returning  to  Trinity,  Portsmouth,  I860.  He  served  at  St. 
Paul's,  Petersburg,  Va.,  1868,  where,  in  1871,  he  founded 
St.  Paul's  School  for  Girls;  and  in  1874  became  Rector  of 
Trinity  Church,  San  Francisco,  Cal.  The  College  of  William 
and  Mary  conferred  on  him  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Divinity 
in  1869, 'and  that  of  Doctor  of  Laws  in  1874. 

The  Missionary  District  of  Northern  California  having 
been  created  at  the  General  Convention  of  1874,  Dr.  Wing- 
field  was  chosen  as  the  first  Bishop,  and  was  consecrated  in 
St.  Paul's,  Petersburg,  Va.,  December  2,  of  the  same  year, 
by  Bishops  Johns,  Atkinson,  Lay,  Pinkeney,  and  Lyman. 

On  removing  to  his  Missionary  See  he  became  president 
of  the  Missionary    College    of    St.    Augustine,    at    Benicia. 


128  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

Later  he  assumed  the  headship  of  St.  Mary's  of  the  Pacific, 
in  Benicia,  and  also  became  Rector  of  St.  Paul's  Church, 
Benicia.  During  a  laborious  and  devoted  administration, 
Bishop  Wingfield  has  declined  four  opportunities  for  transla- 
tion— in  1879,  the  Bishopric  of  Louisiana;  in  1882,  the  As- 
sistant Bishopric  of  Mississippi;  and  in  1886  and  1887,  the 
See  of  Easton. 

His  administration,  under  many  untoward  circumstances 
impeding  his  work,  and  with  a  tragic  episode  in  which  all 
hearts  were  won  to  him  in  sympathy  and  marked  respect,  has 
been  earnest,  acceptable  and  successful.  His  eloquence,  zeal, 
devotion  and  energy  commended  the  Bishop  and  his  work  to 
all  men. 

His  published  works  are  "'The  Sacrament  of  Warriors ;" 
''Answers  to  the  Charge  of  Uncharitableness ;"  "The  Church- 
man's Gratitude;"  Sermons,  Pastorals,  etc. 

Bishop  Wingfield,  as  a  member  of  this  community,  was 
respected  and  loved  by  all  who  knew  him.  The  members  of 
his  congregation  of  St.  Paul's  Church  worshipped  him.  His 
charity  was  unbounded  and  his  hand  was  always  open  to  the 
needy.  All  who  were  educated  under  him  at  St.  Augustine's 
College  will  hear  with  regret  of  his  demise.  He  always  had 
a  kind  and  hearty  greeting  for  all,  and  to  those  who  had  gained 
his  friendship  he  was  a  frind  indeed,  and  his  loss  will  be  felt 
by  many  who  had  always  looked  to  him  for  advice  and  counsel. 

He  leaves  a  widow,  Anne  M.  D.,  and  one  daughter,  Mrs. 
Mary  Scott,  who  now  resides  in  Richmond,  Va. 

THE   FUNERAL. 

The  funeral  services  were  held  on  Friday  at  6  :30  p.  m. 
at  St.  Paul's  Episcopal  Church.  The  remains  were  taken 
from  his  late  residence  to  the  Church,  where  the  Rt.  Rev. 
Win.  Ford  Nichols.  D.  D.,  Bishop  of  California,  in  the  full 
robe  of  his  high  office,  and  assisted  by  the  Rev.  J.  T.  Shirtleff, 
of  Auburn ;  Rev.  John  Partridge,  of  Petaluma ;  Rev.  James 
Cope,  of  Santa  Rosa  ;  Rev.  Chas.  L.  Miel,  of  Sacramento ;  Rev. 
Wm.  A.  George,  of  Chico;  Rev.  A.  A.  McAllister,  Chaplain 
LT.  S.  K,  Yallejo;  Rev.  Caleb  Ben-Ham,  of  Napa,  and  Rev. 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  129 

J.  H.  Waterman,  of  Benicia,  met  the  funeral  cortege  at  the 
outer  door  of  the  Church  and  escorted  it  to  the  Chancel, 
Bishop  Nichols  chanting  a  prayer.  It  was  a  most  solemn 
and  impressive  scene,  and  one  never  to  be  forgotten  by  those 
who  attended.  When  the  words,  "I  am  the  resurrection  and 
the  life,  saith  the  Lord"  were  spoken  by  Bishop  Nichols  there 
was  hardly  a  dry  eye  in  the  congregation.  The  singing  by 
the  choir,  which  was  especially  chosen  for  the  occasion,  was 
beautiful.  At  the  end  of  the  burial  service  the  remains  were 
taken  to  the  evening  train  for  transmission  to  Petersburg,  W. 
Va.,  where  the  remains  will  be  interred  in  the  family  plot. 

The  Church  was  handsomely  draped  in  the  Royal  Purple, 
interwoven  with  white  carnations  and  roses,  and  branches  of 
the  triumphal  palm  helped  to  make  it  a  beautiful  and  impres- 
sive scene.  The  following  gentlemen  acted  as  pall  bearers: 
Colonel  W.  W.  Lyman,  of  St.  Helena ;  W.  W.  Armstrong,  of 
San  Francisco ;  Dr.  W.  A.  Moore,  of  Benicia ;  Judge  J.  M. 
Gregory,  of  Suisun ;  F.  W.  Gabriel,  of  Suisun ;  F.  P.  Wein- 
mann,  of  Benicia.  The  honorary  pall  bearers  were  as  follows : 
Captain  Geo.  White,  of  Oakland;  W.  R.  Porter,  of  Watson- 
ville ;  Elliot  McAllister,  of  Oakland ;  Jas.  A.  Nowland,  of 
San  Francisco ;  Geo.  H.  Andruss,  of  Oakland ;  Major  Win.  B. 
Hooper,  of  San  Francisco ;  Dr.  T.  M.  Todd,  of  Auburn ;  John 
A.  Walker,  of  Benicia;  Dr.  S.  A.  Deuel,  of  Benicia;  Herbert 
J.  Show,  of  Sutter  Creek;  Dr.  R.  P.  Smith,  of  Santa  Rosa; 
P.  Torelli,  of  Benicia. 

The  world  hath  lost  a  man.     His  path  he  strewed 

With  gentle  kindnesses  and  words  of  grace. 

From  all  degrees  of  men  his  open  face 

Won  high  regard  or  earnest  gratitude. 

With  sturdy  honesty  and  truth  endued, 

His  soul  was  written  on  his  countenance, 

And  all  might  read  him  at  a  casual  glance, 

As  on  a  world-wide  pedestal  he  stood. 

By  unclean  pelf  his  hand  and  heart  unstained, 

Strong  for  the  right,  and  turning  not  aside 

Whene'er  the  public  weal  was  in  debate, 


130  THE  f  ANNALS  OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

He  justified  the  honor  he  had  gained. 
If  specks  in  marble  envious  eyes  espied, 
His  faith  in  God  was  his  sure  armor-plate. 


The  will  of  the  late  Bishop  Wingfield  was  filed  for  pro- 
bate in  the  Superior  Court  of  Solano  County  August  15.  The 
estate  consists  of  money  in  the  savings  bank,  investments  and 
promissory  notes,  amounting  to  $57,086,  and  real  estate  valued 
at  $22,420 ;  total  $79,506.  The  will  was  dated  January  16, 
1893,  and  the  entire  estate  was  bequeathed  to  the  widow,  Mrs. 
Anne  M.  Wingfield,  for  her  sole  use  during  the  term  of  her 
natural  life,  after  the  expiration  of  which  it  passes  to  the 
daughter,  Mary  Wingfield. — The  Pacific  Churchman,  San 
Francisco,  Cal.,  volume  xxxiv.  number  111,  September  1, 
1898. 


REV.  WILLIAM  C.  STOUT. 

A.  D.  1824-1858.  Rev.  William  C.  Stoat,  who  assisted 
at  the  ordination  of  Mr.  J.  II.  D.  Wingfield,  principal  of  the 
Ashley  Institute,  was  the  son  of  John  G.  and  Mary  Kirby 
Stout.  He  was  born  near  Greenville,  Term.,  February  18, 
1824;  ordained  Deacon  in  Alexandria,  Va.,  by  Rt.  Rev. 
Leonidas  Polk,  of  Louisiana,  in  1847 ;  ordained  Priest 
in  Fayetteville,  Ark.,  by  Rt.  Rev.  Dr.  G.  W.  Freeman,  in 
1848.  In  1851  Mr.  Stout  was  married  to  Miss  Mary  Jor- 
dan, of  Marshall  County,  Miss.  In  1852-53  he  officiated  at 
Calvary  Church,  Memphis,  Tenn.,  and  in  1858,  moved  to 
Little  Rock,  Ark. 

A.  D.  1 860"  1 886.  During  the  interval  between  his  mar- 
riage and  that  date,  Mr.  Stout  was  almost  always  employed  in 
the  care  of  his  wife's  possessions,  consisting  of  slaves  and 
plantations,  of  which  she  was  the  orphan  heiress.       The  care 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  131 

of  these  souls  lie  felt  to  be  imperative — a  trust  from  the 
Creator,  as  well  as  a  trust  from  his  wife.  She  was  left 
entirely  alone  on  the  death  of  her  father  and  was  very  de- 
pendent on  her  husband.  But  whenever  an  opportunity  for 
mission  work  offered  that  he  could  combine  with  his  first,  im- 
mediate charge,  he  embraced  it  gladly  and  wrought  faithfully 
in  the  Master's  vineyard,  without  compensation  other  than 
that  bestowed  in  the  blessing  on  his  labors  by  the  just  house- 
holder. In  the  summer  of  1860  Rev.  Mr.  Stout  took  charge 
of  Christ  Church,  as  Acting  Rector,  during  the  absence  of 
Bishop  Lay  and  Dr.  Wheat,  the  Rector  in  charge.  He  had 
many  friends  in  the  parish.  The  bulk  of  his  wealth  dis- 
solved during  the  Civil  War,  but  in  adversity  as  in  prosperity 
he  did  not  forfeit  his  allegiance  to  Him  he  vowed  to  serve. 
He  died  at  Morrilton,  Ark.,  on  the  lltli  of  December,  1886, 
deeply  mourned  by  his  bereaved  family  and  at  peace  with 
God.       The  children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Stout  were : 

1.  William  Jordan  Stout.     Who  married  Miss  Fannie 
Farrish,  of  Jackson,  Miss.,  and  died  in  1883. 

2.  James  Jordan  Stout.      Unmarried;  died  in  1885. 

3.  Arthur  Polk  Stout.     Unmarried;  died  in  1883. 

4.  Thomas  Percy  Stout.     Married  Miss  Ida  Wendel, 
of  Brownsville,  Tenn. 

5.  Mary  Irene  Stout.     Married  Mr.  G.  P.  Lane,  of 
Mississippi.     They  have  a  son,  De  Lisle,  and  a  daughter. 


132  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 


REV.  JOHN  THOMAS  WHEAT,  D.  D. 

A.  D.  1801-1867.  Rev.  John  Thomas  Wheat,  D.  D., 
who  succeeded  Rev.  Andrew  F.  Freeman  as  the  second  Rector 
of  Christ  Church,  was  born  November  15,  1801,  in  Washing- 
ton City,  where  he  lived  until  he  became  of  age.  He  then  re- 
moved to  Alexandria,  Va.,  where  he  studied  for  the  ministry 
under  Rev.  Dr.  Wilmer,  of  that  city.  While  studying  he  also, 
at  the  age  of  21,  instructed  thirty  youths  in  the  higher 
branches  of  learning.  Under  his  good  instruction  and  dis- 
cipline this  school  increased  to  eighty  or  ninety  pupils,  requir- 
ing two  assistants.  Mr.  Wheat  was  then,  in  1825,  admitted  to 
the  Diaconate  of  the  Episcopal  Church  by  Bishop  Moore,  of 
Virginia,  in  Christ  Church,  Alexandria,  and  in  1826  he  was 
ordained  Presbyter  by  Bishop  Kemp,  of  Maryland,  in  St. 
Paul's  Church,  Baltimore.  The  next  year  he  took  charge 
of  a  Church  in  Wheeling,  Va.  From  1835  to  1838  he  was 
Rector  of  St.  Paul's  Church,  New  Orleans,  La.  In  1839-49 
he  was  Rector  of  Christ  Church  in  Nashville,  Tenn.,  leaving 
there  to  accept  the  chair  of  professor  of  logic  in  the  University 
of  North  Carolina  at  Chapel  Hill,  where  he  remained  until 
1859.  He  then  became  Rector  of  Christ  Church,  Little  Rock, 
Ark.  During  the  war,  in  1863,  while  cut  off  by  the  fall  of 
Vicksburg,  from  his  parish  in  Little  Rock,  he  was  chaplain  m 
the  Confederate  army.  From  July,  1867,  until  he  retired 
from  active  service  in  the  ministry  he  was  Rector  of  the  Monu- 
mental Church  of  St.  Lazarus,  at  Memphis,  Tenn.,  which  he 
resigned  after  nearly  half  a  century  of  clerical  labor.  The 
farewell  services,  on  his  taking  leave  of  his  congregation,  were 
very  impressive.  Previous  to  the  opening  of  the  regular  ser- 
vices, Dr.   Carmichel,  of  a   neighboring    Church,    made  an 


REV.  JOHN   THOMAS  WHEAT,  D.  D. 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  133 

address,  in  which  he  paid  a  just  tribute  to  Dr.  Wheat's  high 
standing  and  abilities,  showing  the  effect  of  his  eloquence 
upon  his  hearers.  The  Memphis  Appeal  in  quoting  from 
the  address,  says : 

"Sixteen  years  ago,  when  the  speaker  was  a  young  lawyer 
in  Fredericksburg,  Va.,  Dr.  Wheat  delivered  an  address  to 
the  young  men  of  that  town.  The  fervid  eloquence,  the  lofty 
piety  of  the  minister,  and  the  great  and  glorious  truths  he  re- 
vealed that  day  were  not  without  their  effect  upon  everyone 
there,  and  at  once  decided  him  to  resolve  to  study  for  the  min- 
istry. This  resolve  was  carried  into  effect,  and  it  was  owing 
to  the  earnest  efforts  of  Dr.  Wheat  that  day  that  he,  the 
speaker,  became  a  minister.  His  gratitude,  his  apprecia- 
tion for  the  good  man  who  had  induced  him  to  espouse  the 
cause  of  the  Lord  were  deep  and  lasting." 

A.  D.  1838-1866.  Besides  his  local  clerical  labors,  Dr. 
Wheat  has  filled  the  honorable  position  of  Delegate  to  the 
General  Convention  of  the  Episcopal  Church,  during  the 
triennial  meetings  of  1838,  1841,  1844,  1847,  1868,  and  1871. 
In  1846  Dr.  Wheat  received  the  degree  of  D.  D.  from  the 
University  of  JSTashville,  Tenn.  In  1866  he  published  a 
"Preparation  for  the  Holy  Communion."  On  March  10, 
1825,  in  the  city  of  Alexandria,  Ya.,  Dr.  Wheat  married 
Selina  Blair  Patten  Roberdeau.  In  1875  he  celebrated  his 
golden  wedding.  For  that  occasion  he  wrote  and  published 
a  poem,  dedicated  to  his  wife,  entitled  "Reminiscences  of  My 
P re-Nuptial  Life,"  containing  the  mention  of  many  interest- 
ing incidents.       Their  children  were  : 

A.  D.  1826-1862.  1.  Chatham  Roberdeau.  Born  in 
Alexandria,  Va.,  April  9,  1826.  .  He  fought  under  General 
Winfield  Scott  in  the  Mexican  War.  After  peace  was  de- 
clared, fought  under  Mexican  generals  for  the  State  against 
the  Church,  going  twice  into  the  City  of  Mexico  with  a  con- 


134  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

quering  army;  first  with  General  Scott,  and  afterwards  with 
General  Alvarez.  He  went  to  the  rescue  of  General  Walker 
in  Central  America  ;  tried  to  liberate  the  Cubans  under  Lopez ; 
went  to  offer  his  sword  to  Garibaldi  in  Italy,  and  was  there 
styled  "the  Murat  of  America,"  because  of  his  fearlessness  on 
the  battlefield;  returned  to  America  at  the  beginning  of  the 
Civil  War  and  commanded  the  celebrated  "Louisiana  Tiger 
Bines."  He  fell  at  the  head  of  his  command  while  carrying 
the  colors  that  had  five  times  been  shot  down  in  almost  as 
many  minutes,  at  the  battle  of  Gaines's  Mill,  June  27,  1862. 

A.  D.  1827-1872.  2.  Selina  Patten,  Born  June  12, 
1827.  Married  Dr.  John  Seay,  of  Nashville,  Tenn.  Died 
November  8,  1872. 

A.  D.  1830-1862.  3.  John  Thomas.  Born  Decem- 
ber 3,  1830.  Was  killed  in  the  Civil  War  at  the  battle  of 
Shiloh,  Tenn.,  April  0,  1862. 

A.  D.  1833-1853.  4.  Josephine  May.  Born  Febru- 
ary 22,  1833.  Married  Hon.  Frances  E.  Shober,  secretary 
of  United  States  Senate,  July  11,  1853. 

5.  Reginald  Heber.  Born  January  5,  1837.  Died 
June  7,  1839. 

A.  D.  1841.     C.     Leonidas  Poll:     Born  May  5,  1841. 

A.  D.  1 888-1 896.  Dr.  Wheat  lived  to  be  87  years  old, 
spending  the  last  few  years  of  his  life  among  his  children.  He 
entered  into  the  Life  Eternal  February  2,  1888,  from  the 
home  of  his  much  loved  granddaughter,  Mrs.  May  Shober 
Boyden,  at  Salisbury,  N.  C,  ministered  to  in  his  last  illness 
by  his  faithful  and  devoted  wife,  his  daughter,  Josephine 
May,  his  granddaughter,  May,  and  her  husband  Archibald 
Boyden.  He  was  buried  from  St.  Luke's  Church,  Salis- 
bury, 1ST.  C,  Sunday  morning,  February  5,  and  interred  in 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  135 

the  old  English  graveyard  near  the  Church.  Dr.  Wheat's 
old  parishioners  of  St.  Lazarus,  Memphis,  sent,  as  a  memorial 
to  their  beloved  pastor,  a  communion  service  of  gold,  enclosed 
in  a  brass  bound  oak  casket,  to  St.  Luke's  Church,  Salisbury. 
St.  Mark's  Church,  Berkley,  Cal.,  which  he  established  while 
sojourning  there  in  1876,  has  placed  on  the  altar  a  handsome 
brass  cross  and  vases  as  a  memorial  to  the  founder  of  the 
parish.  All  Saints'  Church,  Concord,  1ST.  C,  erected  a  hand- 
some chancel  window  to  Dr.  Wheat,  who  organized  that  parish 
and  was  the  first  Hector.  This  was  his  last  work  on  earth. 
Ins  wife  survived  him  nearly  ten  years.  She  fell  asleep 
on  the  eve  of  Christmas,  1896,  in  the  ninety-second  year  of 
her  life,  and  was  buried  from  St.  Luke's  Church,  Salisbury, 
1ST.  C,  and  laid  to  rest  by  the  side  of  her  beloved  husband, 
there  to  await  the  resurrection  morn. 

The  Richmond  Times  (Virginia),  of  date  December  2, 
1896,  published  the  appended  special  dispatch: 

MRS.  SELINA  ROBERDEAU  WHEAT. 

SALISBURY,  K  C,  December  26.— (Special)— 
Mrs.  Selina  Robevdeau  Wheat  died  night  before  last  and  was 
buried  here  to-day  by  the  side  of  her  husband,  from  St.  Luke's 
Episcopal  Church.  She  was  the  daughter  of  General  Rober- 
deau,  of  Revolutionary  War  fame,  and  was  born  in  Alexan- 
dria, Va.,  in  1805,  and  married  Rev.  John  Thomas  Wheat  in 
1825.  She  was  the  mother  of  Major  Roberdeau  Wheat,  of 
the  Louisiana  Tigers ;  Captain  John  Thomas  Wheat,  Mrs. 
Selina  Seay,  of  Nashville ;  Professor  Leo  Wheat,  and  Mrs. 
Colonel  Shober,  of  this  city,  at  whose  home  Mrs.  Wheat  died. 

She  was  a  noble  and  illustrious  woman  and  lived  an 
honored  and  useful  life  of  over  ninety-one  years.  Tt  is  said 
her  husband  was  the  first  child  born  in  the  city  of  Washing- 
ton, D.  C,  after  its  settlement,  the  family  on  both  sides  being 
of  illustrious  blood. 


136  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

As  an  unconscious  witness  to  the  unselfish  heart  and 
Christian  graces  of  this  remarkable  woman,  the  annalist  feels 
it  a  privilege  to  transcribe  one  of  Mrs.  Wheat's  letters  taken 
from  a  treasured  collection,  premising  that  Mrs.  Wheat  had 
known  her  correspondent  in  childhood  in  Nashville,  Tenn. 
The  letter  was  addressed  to  her  at  "Grape  Leaf"  plantation, 
where  she  was  visiting  her  mother  and  sister,  and  brother, 
Colonel  John  M.  Harrell: 

Little  Eock,  Ark.,  February  27,  1860. 

Mrs.  Dr.  Canirell: 

My  Dear  Young  Friend — You  are  doubtless  wondering 
why  I  have  not  replied  to  your  very  kind  letter,  which  came 
while  I  was  nursing  a  very  sore  eye ;  but  I  was  thinking  you 
would  be  the  gainer,  as  the  doctor  fully  intended  replying  for 
me.  He  has  been  taking  care  of  my  correspondence,  prin- 
cipally to  our  children,  he  confesses  "to  the  utter  neglect  of 
all  others."  So  I  come  to  assure  you  that  we,  neither  of  us, 
have  forgotten  you  or  the  doctor;  indeed,  we  begin  to  look  for 
you  soon,  for  we  have  missed  you  terribly.  Say  to  the  doctor, 
I  have  been  a  patient  of  Dr.  Peyton,  and  have  taken  my  first 
dose  of  quinine,  which  I  had  dreaded  so  much.  I  seldom 
go  near  your  shutup  house  without  wishing  you  were  there. 
T  ever  miss  your  sweet  children,  with  their  answering  notes 
of  "little  drops  of  water."  Will  you  not  come  back  in  time 
for  the  Easter  festival  ?  It  is  then  the  rewards  are  to  be 
given.  I  do  hope  Lilly  and  May  will  be  in  the  ranks.  They 
do  deserve  their  prizes.  I  will  send  them  the  Easter  hymn 
and  you  will  teach  it  to  them.  Bishop  Lay  sent  it  to  the 
Sunday  School.  He  was  so  delighted  with  our  little  Chris- 
tians. I  was  truly  sorry  I  did  not  see  your  mother  at  her 
late  visit.  We  exchanged  calls  without  seeing  each  other.  I 
have  met  your  brother  at  several  of  the  bridal  parties.  I  hope 
you  saw  the  account  of  the  dual  wedding  which  took  place  in 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  137 

our  Church.*  Never  was  there  so  beautiful  a  tableau  in 
our  Church,  and  seldom  could  you  find  so  quiet  and  well- 
behaved  an  audience.  You  might  have  heard  a  pin  fall. 
Yet  the  crowd  filled  the  aisles  to  the  very  ahorns  of  the  altar." 
No  levity,  no  whispering,  and  not  a  movement  was  made  to 
leave  till  the  wedded  pairs  were  out.  The  night  was  lovely, 
and  the  entrance  street  filled,  as  was  the  Church,  to  its  utmost 
capacity.  Judge  Rector  is  to  take  a  pew  in  our  Church, 
which  he  says,  his  wife  shall  always  attend  "if  she  chooses." 
By  the  way,  there  is  such  a  demand  for  pews  that  I  have 
given  up  mine  to  Mrs.  Bertrand,  who  needed  two  and  could 
not  get  one  near  to  the  one  she  still  retains.  The  doctor  is 
beautifying  the  Churchyard,  which,  you  know,  needed  atten- 
tion. You  will  find  us  with  imperial  ways !  f  Leo  has  not 
yet  come ;  he  was  taken  possession  of  by  my  friends  in  Rich- 
mond, who  write  "if  you  succeed  in  keeping  Leo,  you  will 
have  to  come  for  him."  My  daughter  Selina^:  has  been  in 
great  trouble.  Her  loveliest  child,  10  years  old,  has  been  laid  in 
the  tomb,  or  rather  "has  gone  to  live  in  heaven,"  which  is 
her  more  devout  expression.  I  was  too  unwell  to  go  to  her, 
and  she  is  hoping  to  see  me  in  the  spring.  We  talk  of  visit- 
ing New  Orleans  after  Easter,  when  Mr.  Stout  will  be  at 
home  to  take  the  doctor's  place,  who  will  need  some  rest  about 
that  time. 

Please  excuse  my  poor  return  for  your  most  kind  letter 
and  be  assured  I  have  not  willingly  neglected  you.  The 
doctor  has  a  great  antipathy,  as  most  gentlemen  have,  to 
letters,  except  on  business,  which  have  accumulated  on  him 
since  the  Bishop's  visit ;  indeed,  it  seems  that  much  of  the  duty 
of  the  Episcopate,  that  is  not  wholly  official,  has  to  devolve 
on  the  oldest  Presbyter.       The     Bishop  is    to  live  at  Fort 


* Judge  Henry  M.  Fect<">r,  widower,  afterwards  Governor  of  Arkansas,  was  mar- 
ried to  Miss  Ernestine  Linde,  and  Major  Brown  to  Mrs.  Sallie  Trapnall,  widow,  nee 
Faulkner,  by  the  same  marriage  service. 

tLeonidas  Polk  Wheat,  youngest  child  of  Dr.  and  Mrs.  J.  T.  Wheat,  and  organist 
of  Christ  Church. 

|Mrs.  John  Seay. 


138  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

Smith.  The  secretary  of  war  has  given  him  permission  to 
occupy  a  part  of  the  public  building.  He  is  to  remove  his 
family  in  May. 

With  love  to  Dr.  Cantrell  and  a  kiss  to  the  children,  I  am 

Yours  truly, 

SELINA  WHEAT. 

A.  D.  1859-1886.  Dr.  Wheat's  first  object,  when  he 
took  charge  of  Christ  Church  as  Rector,  was  "to  feed  the 
lambs."  The  Sunday  School  was  the  field  where  he  sowed 
good  seed,  looking  for  the  harvest  in  the  distant  future.  The 
children  were  gathered  together,  and  before  his  encouraging 
eye  and  winning  courtliness  of  manner,  shyness  vanished  and 
enthusiasm  spread  through  the  ranks.  A  sketch  of  the  first 
Easter  festival  held  under  his  direction  in  1860,  referred  to 
in  the  letter  quoted  in  the  Arkansas  Gazette  of  Wednesday, 
April  7,  1S86,  twenty-six  years  afterwards,  was  printed  as  a 
reminiscence,  from  which  the  subjoined  extract  is  taken  : 

"The  Church,  which  was  much  enlarged  and  improved 
under  the  direction  of  the  former  Rector,  Rev.  A.  F.  Free- 
man, has  been  further  embellished  by  the  good  taste  of  the 
present  Rector,  Dr.  J.  T.  Wheat.  The  Churchyard,  spacious, 
grassy  and  shaded  by  fine  trees,  has  been  enclosed  with  a 
fence  of  appropriate  design,  paved  from  the  gate  to  the  two 
entrances  and  planted  with  evergreens  on  each  side  of  the 
Church.  Directly  in  front  of  the  tower  (which  had  been 
added  by  Rev.  A.  F.  Freeman),  and  overlooking  it,  is  a 
stately  oak,  whose  branches  extend  in  kindly  guardianship, 
forming  a  group  more  striking  and  pleasing  than  the  finest 
sculpture ;  and  the  whole,  colored  with  a  springday  sun,  the 
green  foliage  of  the  trees  and  the  brighter  green  of  the  turf, 
and  animated  with  groups  of  worshippers  entering  the  holy 
temple,  presented  a  scene  worthy  of  poet's  pen  and  painter's 
brush.  A  flight  of  steps  in  the  tower  led  to  the  gallery  of 
the  Church,  where  the  pipe  organ  and  choir  were  stationed. 
Mr.  Leo  P.  Wheat,  son  of  the  Rector,  was  the  organist,  His 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  139 

reputation  as  a  skilled  musician  is  a  public  one.  On  this 
Easter  Sunday  his  voluntary  was  a  transport  of  harmony, 
which  merged  into  the  anthem  "The  Lord  is  Risen  To-Day/' 
sung  triumphantly  by  his  well  trained  choir,*  as  the  prelude 
to  the  morning  service.  This  was  conducted  by  Rev.  Dr. 
Wheat,  assisted  by  Rev.  Wm.  C.  Stout.  The  sermon,  on  the 
text  from  Colossians  iii.  1-3,  was  a  continuation  of  a  series 
delivered  during  Lent,  and  was  one  of  the  ablest  efforts  of 
the  gifted  Rector.  It  has  not  been  quite  a  year  since  the  con- 
gregation welcomed  him,  and,  at  the  altar,  at  the  bedside  of 
the  sick  and  dying,  in  his  constant  round  of  parochial  visits 
among  the  rich  and  poor,  his  daily  life  and  conversation  have 
been  so  effective,  that,  like  sheep  straying  from  the  fold,  the 
members  have  assembled  at  his  call,  and  through  green  past- 
tures  and  by  still  waters  have  been  refreshed  at  his  hands,  as 
the  Master  enjoined.  The  evening  service,  like  that  of  the 
morning,  was  largely  attended,  and  the  series  of  sermons  was 
concluded  with  one  on  the  text,  I  John  iii.  2,  3. 

"On  Easter  Monday  a  parish  festival  was  held  at  the 
Church.  After  morning  prayer  was  said,  the  Rector  made 
an  address  on  the  spiritual  condition  of  the  parish  and  the 
best  means  of  promoting  its  prosperity.  The  secretary  read 
his  report  of  the  finances.  An  interesting  memoir  of  the  parish 
was  then  read  and  commented  upon,  after- which  the  new 
Vestry  was  chosen.  The  members  of  the  Vestry  used  the 
occasion  for  the  presentation  of  a  testimonial  from  the  con- 
gregation to  the  Rev.  W.  C.  Stout  in  appreciation  of  his  ser- 
vices in  the  parish  as  acting  Rector.  On  Monday  evening 
was  celebrated  the  festival  of  the  Sunday  School.  This  sup- 
plied the  crowning  evidence  of  the  Rector's  zeal  and  success. 
Under  his  administration,  supported  by  the  superintendent, 
Mr.  Matthews,  a  gentleman  of  rare  culture  and  Christian  ex- 
cellence, the  original  little  band  of  fifteen  or  twenty  scholars 
has  increased  to  ninety,  and  thirteen  teachers  now  perform 
the  duty  which  formerly  fell  to  two  or  three,  oftener  to  one — 
Mrs.  Luke  E.  Barber.       The  celebration  in  the  eveninc;  will 


*It  is  a  subject  for  regret  that  the  names  of  those  who  formed  this  splendid  choir 
cannot  be  procured. 


140  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

long  be  remembered  by  our  citizens.  It  was  a  brilliant  and 
lovely  scene — without  blemish,  complete  and  graceful  in  every 
detail.  The  scholars,  with  their  teachers,  occupied  the  front 
pews,  the  girls  on  the  right,  the  boys  on  the  left.  The  bap- 
tismal font  (the  gift  of  Mrs.  Frederick  W.  Trapnall)  was 
filled  and  wreathed  with  flowers.  The  Chancel  platform  was 
unoccupied  except  at  the  extreme  right,  where  a  small  table 
supported  a  collection  of  premium  books  handsomely  bound. 
Near  the  table  sat  Mr.  Matthews,  the  superintendent  of  the 
Sunday  School,  and  Colonel  Thompson,  president  of  St. 
John's  College,  the  teacher  of  the  young  men's  Bible  class. 
The  altar  wTas  lighted  brilliantly  and  embellished  with  vases 
of  flowers.  Dr.  Wheat,  in  vestments,  was  seated  on  the 
north  side  of  the  altar,  the  Rev.  Mr.  Stout  on  the  south  side. 
Near  the  Chancel  at  the  head  of  the  south  aisle  was  placed  a 
parlor  organ.  Mr.  Leo  Wheat  presided,  and  to  the  magic 
inspiration  of  his  strains  must  be  attributed  the  especial 
charm  of  the  exercises.  These  were  opened  with  the  usual 
offices  of  devotion  of  the  Sunday  School,  conducted  by  the 
Rector.  A  hymn,  "Glory  to  the  Father  Give,"  was  sung  by 
the  school.  Mr.  Matthews  then  delivered  an  able  address  to 
the  parents.  The  hymn,  '"Savior,  Who  Thy  Flock  Art  Feed- 
ing," led  by  the  marvellously  sweet  voice  of  Mrs.  Thompson, 
followed  this.  The  rules  were  then  given  in  order,  first  by  a 
little  girl  of  5  years,  who  stood  on  the  Chancel  floor,  and  re- 
cited them  without  any  prompting,  and  then  by  the  classes 
who  recited  in  concert  after  her.     These  were : 

1.  Regular  and  punctual  attendance. 

2.  Cleanliness  of  person  and  apparel. 

3.  Careful  preparation  of  lessons. 

4.  Quiet  and  order  in  and  about  the  Church. 

5.  Kindness  and  courtesy  to  each  other. 

6.  Cordial  respect  to  teachers. 

7.  Prompt  and  cheerful  obedience. 

8.  Strict  truthfulness  in  all  things. 

9.  A  place  for  everything,  and  everything  in  its  place. 
10.      A  time  for  all  things,  and  everything  at  the  proper 

time. 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  141 

11.  Business  for  everybody,  and  everybody  to  mind  his 
own  business. 

After  this  the  Hector  catechised  the  children.  The 
hymn,  "Youth,  When  Devoted  to  the  Lord,"  was  then  sung, 
after  which  the  classes  were  called  in  succession  for  their 
Easter  offerings.  These  were  voluntary,  had  been  collected 
in  the  previous  half  year  and  had  been  kept  separate  by  the 
teachers  to  be  devoted  at  Easter  to  missions  in  the  Diocese 
of  Arkansas. 

The  classes  responded  to  their  names,  descriptive  of  the 
Christian  life,  which  were : 

1.  Angels'  Charge  (little  tots). 

2.  Lambs  of  the  Good  Shepherd. 

3.  Buds  of  Promise. 

4.  Crown  Jewels. 

5.  Early  Seekers. 

G.  Heirs  of  the  Kingdom. 

7.  Children  in  the  Temple. 

8.  Little  Missionaries. 

9.  Christian  Brotherhood. 

10.  Young  Pilgrims. 

11.  Soldiers  of  Christ. 

12.  Heavenly  Pacers. 

Each  class,  as  it  was  called,  advanced  in  succession,  step- 
ping to  the  music,  the  tallest  going  first,  bearing  a  banner  of 
white  silk  with  a  cross  of  gold  painted  on  it.  As  each  class 
approached  the  Chancel  rail,  one  of  the  number  presented  the 
offering  in  a  basket  of  flowers  or  in  the  heart  of  a  bouquet, 
which  was  received  by  the  Rector,  who  announced  the  amount 
and  then  placed  it  on  the  altar.  The  circle  then  turned 
toward  the  audience,  one  member  recited  a  few  selected  verses 
of  Scripture  appropriate  to  the  class  title,  another  a  hymn 
and  then  all  returned  to  their  seats.  When  all  the  classes  had 
performed  a  similar  exercise,  the  hymn,  "Little  Drops  of 
Water,"  was  sung  with  great  unction.  Colonel  Thompson 
then  made  an  address  to  the  children,  in  which  he  introduced 
an  original,  instructive,  and  most  beautiful  alleoorv.       Then 


142  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

was  sung  the  most  animating  of  all  the  hymns,  ''Awake  My 
Soul,  Stretch  Every  Nerve." 

The  premiums  were  next  awarded,  the  teachers  having 
given  previously  the  names  of  those  pupils  who  had  received 
the  greatest  number  of  merit  cards.  An  address  to  the  teach- 
ers was  then  made  by  Rev.  W.  C.  Stout.  His  commendations 
must  have  gratified  both  teachers  and  scholars,  and  it  is  hoped 
that  his  inspiring  appeal  may  be  long  remembered  to  incite 
them  to  renewed  effort.  An  Easter  hymn,  sent  to  the  chil- 
dren by  our  good  Bishop  Lay,  concluded  the  exercises. 

Dr.  Wheat  pronounced  the  benediction,  and  from  many 
hearts  went  up  the  silent  prayer,  "God  bless  the  Church  !  God 
bless  the  clergy." 

A.  D.  1886.  This  "Reminiscence"  was  sent  to  Dr. 
Wheat,  which  he  acknowledged  most  cordially  at  Barrytown, 
1ST.  Y.,  April  13,  1SSG,  referring  to  the  "little  tots"  who  had 
become  matrons,  in  conclusion : 

"How  very  glad  I  should  be  to  see  them  now !  Your 
good  husband  and  your  children  all — God  bless  them  !  And 
I.  should  like  much,  to  see  your  new  Church  and  worship  with 
you  in  it.  But,  wife  and  I  are  too  old  (80J  and  844)  to  think 
of  journeying  so  far  again  ;  indeed, 

"I  do  not  ask  to  see 
The  distant  scene:  one  step  enough  for  me." 

"T  wish  you  would  write  me  a  real  gossiping  letter  about 
you  all,  and  my  old  beloved  friends  and  parishioners  gen- 
erally. Wife  sends  you  the  accompanying  wedding  song, 
with  her  kindest  regards. 

"Unto  God's  most  gracious  favor  and  protection  I  com- 
mit you  all,  and  am,  my  dear  daughter, 

"Yours  truly, 

"J.  T.  WHEAT.'1 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  143 

EPITHALAMIUM  TO  MY  DEAR  WIFE 

ON      THE      .SIXTIETH     ANNIVERSARY      OF      OUR      WEDDING     DAY, 
MARCH   10,    1885. 

Would  you  know,  dear  wife,  the  meaning 

Of  the  singular  gradation 

In  the  value  of  the  Weddings — 

Wood,  Tin,  Silver,  Golden,  Diamond — 

Which,  by  wide-prevailing  custom, 

Are  to  Married  Life  accorded  ? 

'T  is  the  sole  consideration 

Of  the  rareness  of  the  fortune 

Which  befalls  the  Happy  Couple 

Should  both  lives  be  long  continued. 

Half  a  century  Golden  Weddings 

Are  so  distant  and  uncertain 

That  the  cunning  Twenty-fivers, 

Under  plea  of  "Carpe  diem," 

Introduced  the  Silver  Wedding, 

jMot  so  rare,  therefore,  less  costly. 

Going  down  from  Tin  to  Wooden, 

As  the  years  were  less  in  number, 

Less  the  value  of  the  wedding. 

When  we  had,  dear  Wife,  our  Golden, 

Far  too  distant  and  too  precious 

For  our  fondest  hopes'  aspiring 

Seem'd  the  grand  climact'ric  Diamond. 

Scientists,  you  know,  have  told  us 

That  the  basis  of  the  diamond 

Is,  in  truth,  but  common  charcoal. 

Could  there  be  a  greater  contrast  ? 

See !  this  black,  coarse,  soiling  substance ; 

See !  the  diamond  pure  and  brilliant, 

So  between  ourselves,  beloved, 

Vile  and  miserable  sinners, 

And  the  Christ-like  saints  in  Heaven 

Made  illustrious  with  His  glory, 


144  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

Still  more  striking  is  the  contrast. 
Oh !  what  power  in  earth  or  heaven 
Can  effect  such  wondrous  changes  % 
Only  that  of  the  Almighty. 
Not  with  human  observation. 
But  in  secrecy  and  silence, 
This  mysterious  new  creation. 
As  in  Matter,  so  in  Spirit, 
Out  of  death  the  new  life  issues. 
That  of  matter,  of  course,  painless ; 
Ours  by  sanctified  affliction. 
And  most  gladly  should  we  suffer 
If  thereby  we  may  attain  to 
Meetness  for  the  bliss  of  Heaven, 
Holy,  pure,  and  undefiled, 
Christ-like,  sharing  in  His  glory. 
Welcome !  then  the  fiery  f  urnace, 
If  from  dross  it  purify  us. 
Welcome !  wheel  of  lapidary 
With  unsparing,  sharp  abrasion, 
If  it  make  the  gem  more  lustrous. 
Welcome!  knife,  if  skillful  pruning 
Give  the  vine  still  richer  clusters. 
Welcome !  the  strong  hand  uprooting 
¥rom  its  habitat  congenial. 

Reed,  so  delicate  and  slender, 
Stripping  it  of  grace  and  beauty, 
Mutilating,  scarring,  notching, 
Pressing  out  its  very  life-pith, 
If,  thereby,  it  may  be  fitted 
To  breathe  strains  of  heavenly  music, 
When  the  anguish  of  the  singer 
Gives  the  song  its  touching  pathos. 

As  our  Heavenly  Father  orders 
All  things  lovingly  and  wisely, 
There  must  be  a  special  fitness 
In  His  various  dispensations 


THE   ANNALS   OF   CHRIST   CHURCH   PARISH.  145 

To  work  out  our  soul's  salvation ; 
This,  dear  Wife,  has  been  His  purpose 
In  our  married  life's  extension. 
Let  us  be  devoutly  thankful 
And  go  forward  with  fresh  courage; 
He  that  hath  begun  the  good  work 
Will  assuredly  complete  it. 
But  the  question  now  arises — 
Years  of  Married  Life — how  many 
Must  precede  the  Diamond  Wedding  ? 
Some  say  Seventy-live,  some  Sixty, 
We  have  reached  this  latter  period, 
But  as  we  could  not  ask  diamonds 
E'en  from  those  who  love  us  dearly, 
While,  alas !  we  must  confess  it, 
All  our  charcoal's  not  transmuted — 
That,  in  Paradise,  we  hope  for. 
Till  then  we  must  be  contented 
With  our  Sixty  years'  attainment. 
What,  dear  Wife,  shall  be  its  symbol  ? 
Pearl,  I  think,  will  be  appropriate ; 
Both  have  had  a  like  formation. 
Let  us  note  the  wondrous  process. 

A  grain  of  sand,  or  other  substance 
Foreign  to  it,  uncongenial, 
Finds  a  lodgment  in  the  Oyster, 
Sorely  hurts  its  sens'tive  body, 
And  the  sufferer  has  no  power 
To  expel  the  mischief-maker. 
But,  behold !  a  marv'lous  instinct 
Covers  over  the  intruder 
With  a  formative  secretion 
That  by  slow  degrees  gives  roundness 
To  the  sharp,  aggressive  angles ; 
Moulds  it  to  a  sphere,  whose  surface, 
Finished  to  a  polished  smoothness, 
Causes  no  more  irritation. 


146  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

Meekly,  patiently  accepting 

The  inevitable  presence 

As  a  part  of  its  existence, 

And  when  dying,  as  its  life-work, 

Yields  a  perfect  Gem,  all  lovely 

With  the  sky-tint's  soft  reflections ; 

Lovelier  far  beyond  the  sufT'ring, 

And  of  value,  too,  transcending 

The  great  cost  of  its  production. 

So,  dear  Wife,  it  sometimes  happens 

That  in  Married  Life,  the  sweetest, 

There  unfortunately  enters 

Some  discordant,  most  unwelcome, 

Foreign  element  of  suff'ring 

And  unrest — what  the  Apostle 

Calls  a  "thorn" — from  which  he  vainly 

Prayed  the  Lord  to  be  delivered, 

Or  perhaps  it  is  a  burden 

Or  a  cross  which  must  be  carried. 

Some  thus  dealt  with  chafe  against  it, 

Till  their  feelings — lacerated 

By  its  hard  and  cruel  edges — 

Become  morbid  and  embittered, 

And  thus  make  its  very  presence 

A  perpetual  pain  and  poison. 

Others,  wisely  recognizing 

The  high  purpose  for  which  trials 

And  afflictions  are  appointed 

In  the  training  of  God's  children, 

Meekly  take  this  dispensation  ; 

Though  it  press  them  hard  and  sharply, 

Still  they  wear  it  with  sweet  patience, 

Making  it  thereby  more  easy, 

Day-by-day,  to  bear  the  burden, 

Till  at  length,  'tis  seen  to  issue 

Tn  their  spiritual  improvement 

And  the  growth  of  Christian  graces. 

Thus  the  character's  developed, 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  147 

And  through  suff'ring  is  made  perfect — 

Fully  rounded  out  and  radiant 

With  the  beauty  of  Christ-likeness — 

As  the  Dew-drop  with  the  Sunbeam. 

Note,  dear  Wife,  that  I'm  referring 

In  these  diff'rent  illustrations 

Not  to  you  nor  me  exclusive, 

But  to  our  Married  Life,  distinctly, 

And  for  that  I  may  claim  fairly 

That  these  Sixty  years'  experience 

Has  a  Union  formed  between  us — 

Neither  giv'n  nor  tak'n  in  Marriage — 

But  in  nature  like  the  Angels', 

Which  our  Blessed  Lord  has  promised, 

Where  no  flesh  nor  blood  can  enter 

With  earth's  appetites  and  passions. 

This  new  life — the  old  transfigured — 
Pearl-like,  full-orb'd,  radiant,  heavenly, 
Is  to  us,  "of  great  price,"  "goodly," 

(In  the  Gospel  nomenclature,) 
Therefore,  with  devout  thanksgiving, 
We  will  take  the  "cup  of  Blessing," 
With  glad  hearts  and  voices  singing, 
Here  we'll  raise  our  ''Ebenezer"  — 
Hitherto  the  Lord  has  help'd  us — 
Surely  all  our  past  experience 
Should  with  Hope  and  Trust  inspire  us 
That  His  grace  will  be  sufficient 
In  the  future.     Let  us,  therefore, 
Keep  the  feast  of  our  Pearl  wedding, 
Plighting  troth,  and  vows  renewing, 
In  the  strength  of  an  affection 
Holier,  stronger,  than  our  First-love; 
What  has  here  this  blest  beginning 
Must  endure  in  heaven  forever. 

J.  T.  WHEAT. 


148  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

Following  this  there  came,  some  months  afterwards,  a 
brief  note  from  the  subject  of  the  pearl  wedding  poem,  accom- 
panying a  second  poem,  from  Salisbury,  N".  C. 

Mrs.  Dr.  Cant  veil : 

Dear  Ellen — I  hope  I  replied  to  yours.  *  *  *  I 
have  been  nursing  my  dear  husband  for  three  months,  and  he 
has,  only  within  a  few  weeks  been  convalescing,  after  a  severe 
attack  of  pneumonia.  I  am  thankful  to  say  he  is  much 
better.  I  send  you  my  lovely  poem,  yet  hoping  you  sawT  the 
one  I  sent  to  Major  Adams,  as  I  hoped.  Do  write  me  soon 
and  tell  me  of  your  dear  self  and  family  also. 

Love  to  all  }rou  love,  from  your  old  Pastor  and  his  wife, 

SELIKA  WHEAT. 

Do  tell  me  of  Mrs.  Churchill — does  she  live  in  Little 
Rock  ?     Mr.  Crease  hopes  still  to  visit  your  city. 

(This  was  Mr.  Orlando  Crease,  of  whom  Mrs.  Wheat 
had  written  in  a  former  letter.) 

The  wedding  song  is  here  given : 

TRIBUTARY  YERSES  TO  MY  DEAR  WIFE 

ON      THE      EIGHTY-FIRST     ANNIVERSARY      OF      HER      BIRTHDAY, 
SEPTEMBER     12,     1886. 

Eighty-one  years,  you  have  numbered 

In  Life's  pilgrimage,  my  darling ; 

Yet  you  keep  your  youthful  spirits — 

What  a  marvel  of  endurance ! 

In  your  character's  formation 

Many  elements,  and  varied, 

Are  harmoniously  blended. 

France  and  Scotland,  severally, 

Huguenot  and  Cath'lic  mingling; 

Massachusetts  and  Yirginia, 

Thrift  and  Chiv'lry,  "met  together," 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  149 

North  and  South  "have  kissed  each  other." 

What  a  charming  combination — 

"Useful  and  the  Ornamental" — 

For  the  Wife  of  a  poor  Parson  ! 

Energetic,  sympathizing 

With  whatever  is  occurring — 

All  you  read  of  in  the  papers, 

All  you  hear  of  friends  and  kinsfolk, 

Keeping  up  a  correspondence 

With  them  all — their  common  center — 

Binding  scattered  ones  together ; 

Always  some  sage  plan  contriving, 

Often  Airy-Castles  building, 

Chiefly  for  the  good  of  others. 

"Old  Virginny  never  tire!" 

Your  endeavor  to  help  others 

Shows  itself  on  all  occasions, 

And  embraces  all  creation ! 

Did  kind  Providence  permit  it, 

You  would  outvie  Queen  Victoria — 

Empress  of  more  num'rous  subjects, 

And  far  greater  benefactions. 

My  good  wife  is  truly  pious ; 
A  Churchwoman,  staunch  and  zealous, 
Yet,  in  Christian  love,  embraces 
All  who,  being  God's  dear  children, 
Show  it  by  their  Christ-like  spirit — 
By  whatever  name  distinguished. 
Diligently  reads  her  Bible, 
And  her  favorite  "Bogatsky" : 
Loves  to  go  to  Church,  whatever 
Special  service  or  occasion 
May  call  worshippers  together ; 
Likes  to  roam  through  Cemeteries, 
Tracing  on  old,  time-worn  tomb-stones, 
Quaint  devices  and  inscriptions. 
She's  a  lineal  descendant, 
As,  en  badinage,  I  tell  her. 


150  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

Of  that  queer  man  in  Scott's  novel, 
Old  Mortality,  the  Sculptor. 

Wife's  most  striking  characteristic 
Is  her  faithful,  ardent,  clinging 
To  her  family  and  kinsfolk, 
Whether  gone  to  Paradise,  or 
Still  living — all  are  bound  up 
In  her  heart  of  hearts,  forever. 
She's  the  wonderfulest  woman, 
Of  whom  I  have  anv  knowledge — 
Sui  gen'ris,  no  one  like  her ! 
Calmly  brooding,  as  the  Halcyon, 
In  the  smiling,  summer  weather ; 
Buoyant  as  the  Petrel,  riding 
On  the  crest  of  stormy  billows. 

Wife's  resiliency's  a  blessing 
For  which  I  am  very  thankful. 
What  if  she  had  been  despondent 
In  the  dark  days  of  affliction  ? 
Or  an  invalid,  requiring 
Constant  care,  and  whim-indulgence  ? 
Oh,  how  different  my  experience ! 
Saved  from  cares  innumerable, 
By  a  Helpmeet,  self-reliant, 
Bent  on  all  domestic  duties, 
And  yet  thoughtful  of  her  neighbors: 
Seeking  out  the  poor  and  needy, 
Helping  them  in  want  or  sickness, 

Not  alone  with  worldly  comforts, 
But  with  spiritual  consolations. 

Yes^  dear  Wife,  I  sing  your  virtues — 
Others,  if  they  will,  may  fault  you — 
But  your  husband,  quoting  Shakespeare, 
Tells  you,  "In  your  commendation 
I  am  fed" — a  perfect  "Love  Feast" — 
Like  that  of  the  early  Christians. 

Paying  you  my  Annual  Tribute 
Or  commemorative  verses. 


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I  would  give  congratulations, 

Not  in  customary  phrases, — 

Wishing  this  day's  oft  recurrence — 

Thus  implying  that  a  limit 

May  be  put  to  your  existence, 

When  Earth's  Birthdays  shall  have  ended. 

Dear  Wife,  I  would  have  you,  rather, 

Rest  on  Christ's  distinct  assurance, 

"He  that  liveth  and  believeth 

Me,  shall  never  die."     Now,  dearest, 

You  are  living  and  believing 

In  Christ,  only,  for  Salvation, 

Therefore,  You  shall  live  forever! 

"Know  God,  and  His  Son  Christ  Jesus" — 

"This,"  He  says,  "is  Life  Eternal." 

Cannot  we,  without  presumption, 

Say  we  "know"  our  God  and  Saviour  ? 

Though  it  be  as  little  children 

Really  know  an  earthly  parent  ? 

Little  do  they  know  about  him — 

Whence  he  came,  or  what  his  business — 

But  they  know  full  well  his  person ; 

Fearless  run  each  day  to  meet  him ; 

Climb  into  his  arms  exulting; 

Give  and  take  love's  fond  caresses ; 

Tell  him  all  their  joys  and  sorrows; 

All  their  numerous  wants  and  wishes; 

Oft  offending,  oft  repenting, 

Living  in  a  state  of  pardon ; 

Never  for  a  moment  doubting 

That  he  loves  them,  and  will,  always. 

"Who's  your  father?"  asks  a  stranger, 

"Don't  you  know  him?"  says  the  children, — 

Wond'ring  much  at  such  a  question — 

"Why,  we  know  him  just  as  easy! 

"Just  as  easy,"  does  the  Christian 

Know  and  love  his  Heavenly  Father. 

Constant  intercourse  assures  vis 


152  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

That  He  is,  and  the  Rewarder 

Of  all  those  that  seek  Him,  truly, 

Giving  thanks,  and  praying,  always : 

With  all  prayer  and  supplication, 

In  the  Spirit,  and  communing 

With  the  ever-present  Saviour, 

A  peculiar  freshness,  vigor, 

And  reality,  is  given 

To  the  new  life  we  have  in  Him : 

And  His  face,  divinely  tender, 

Seems,  almost,  an  open  vision. 

Not  from  overwrought  excitement, 

Or  fanatical  delusion, — 

Always  short-lived,  and  unreal — 

But  in  constant,  close  communion, 

In  the  stillness  of  the  closet ; 

And,  sometimes,  beneath  the  shadow 

Of  some  overwhelming  Sorrow, 

Which  has  wrought  its  special  purpose, 

Chastened  and  subdued  the  spirit, 

'Till,  not  only  dwelling  with  Him, 

But  completely  hiding  in  Him, 

With  a  sense,  unutterable, 

Of  security  forever  ! — 

Faith  and  Hope  and  Love  made  perfect. 

Multitudes  of  simple  Christians, 
Ignorant  of  Controversy, 
Through  the  witness  of  God's  Spirit, 
In  their  own  hearts,  have  discovered 
That,  in  truth,  the  Blessed  Bible 
Is  the  voice  of  God,  there  speaking 
In  this  Age  of  Skepticism. 
Faith  grows  strong  by  Contemplation, 
Not  of  abstract  truth,  or  dogma, 
But  of  Christ,  Himself,  in  Person — 
All  that  He  has  done  and  suffered; 
Death  and  Hell  for  us  o'ercoming; 
At  His  Father's  right  hand  seated, 


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In  the  fulness  of  His  power, 
''Bringing  many  souls  to  Glory." 

Presently,  another  Birthday 
Both  of  us,  dear  Wife,  will  welcome — 
When  we  know  not,  neither  which,  first, 
Or,  if  God  please,  both  together — 
His  good  pleasure  we're  awaiting. 

The  same  Wisdom,  Powera  and  Goodness, 
Which,  when  we  were  born,  the  First  time, 
Made  provision  for  our  coming 
Into  a  new  mode  of  being, 
Will  do  so,  at  our  next  Birthday, 
What  more  absolutely  helpless 
Than  the  newborn,  human  infant '. 
Left  uncared  for,  it  would  perish. 
But  the  Merciful  Creator 
Brings  it  safely  through  all  dangers. 

So,  dear  Wife,  when  God's  oood  Angels 
To  a  higher  life  transport  us, 
We  shall  be,  again,  as  helpless, 
But  as  absolutely  safe,  too. 
He  who  did  so  wisely  order 
This  life's  opening,  will  as  surely 
To  that  nobler  one  exalt  us. 
Nothing  shocking;,  nothing  monstrous, 
Or  unnatural,  shall  happen  ; 
Left  alone,  for  not  one  moment, 
Under  convoy  of  good  Angels, 
(As  was  Lazarus,  Christ  tells  us,) 
Into  Paradise  emerging, 
We  shall  not  be  among  strangers : 
Th'  older  members  of  the  fam'ly 
Into  loving  arms  will  take  us, 
With  unutterable  gladness ; 
Friends  and  kinsfolk  will  come,  eager 
To  congratulate  and  welcome. 

We  can,  now,  form  no  conception 
Of  the  mode  of  that  existence: 


154  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

But  both  Moses  and  Elias; 

Though,  then,  disembodied  spirits, 

Seen  at  Christ's  transfiguration, 

Were  both  recognized  by  Peter. 

And  those  Spirits,  "in  safe  keeping," 

Whom  our  Saviour  went  and  "preached  to," 

Must  have  known  and  understood  Him. 

If  St.  Paul  thought  it  "far  better," 

From  the  body  to  be  "absent," 

That  he  might  with  Christ  be  "present," 

Surely,  then,  he  must  have  thought  of 

A  Communion,  far  more  perfect, 

Than  is  possible  in  this  world. 

When,  at  parting,  Christ  would  comfort 

His  disconsolate  disciples, 

Was  it  not  with  the  assurance, 

That  He'd  come  again,  in  Person, 

And  unto  Himself  receive  them, 

When  a  place  was  ready  for  them, 

In  His  Father's  "many  mansions  ?" 

Yes,  dear  Wife,  our  "Elder  Brother," 

(Oh,  what  wondrous  condescension! 

He,  Himself,  claims  that  relation.) 

Gone  to  a  far-distant  country, 

To  prepare  a  new  home  for  us — 

There  to  dwell  with  Him  forever — 

Gives  this  comforting  assurance, 

When  we  come  to  the  last  Station, 

We  shall  find  Him  there  to  welcome: 

He  the  path  of  life  will  show  us : 

Fullest  joy  is  in  his  presence ; 

At  His  right  hand  pleasures  endless, 

Made  like  Him !  To  share  His  glory ! 

What  a  destiny  awaits  us ! 

Take,  dear  Wife,  love's  benediction : 
May  your  Birthdays,  all,  be  tending 
Toward  the  glorious  consummation, 
Which  my  poor  muse  has,  so  feebly, 


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Striven  now  to  set  before  yon. 
May  our  loving  Heavenly  Father 
Do  more  for  you,  and  far  better, 
Than  your  husband  can  conceive  of, 
Or  find  words  wherewith  to  utter. 

J.  T.  WHEAT. 

Mrs.  Churchill,  referred  to  in  the  letter  of  Mrs.  Selina 
Wheat,  is  the  wife  of  ex-Governor  Thomas  J.  Churchill,  who 
was  lieutenant  in  the  war  with  Mexico,  and  brigadier  general 
in  the  Civil  War;  the  daughter  of  Senator  Ambrose  H. 
Sevier,  and  granddaughter  of  Judge  and  Mrs.  Benjamin 
Johnson.  These  grandparents  were  prominent  members  of 
the  Christian  Church,  but  their  daughter,  Mrs.  Jordan,  and 
granddaughters,  Mrs.  Churchill,  Mrs.  Shelby  Williams,  and 
Mrs.  J.  Cabell  Breckinridge,  Mrs.  L.  P.  Gibson,  Miss  Matilda 
Jordan,  Mrs.  John  McClintock,  and  great  grandson,  John  C. 
Breckinridge,  Jr.,  are  all  baptized  Episcopalians.  General 
Churchill  was  a  member  of  the  Vestry  during  the  incumbency 
of  Kev.  A.  F.  Freeman. 

The  name  of  R.  W.  Johnson,  United  States  Senator  from 
Arkansas  for  six  years,  and  Confederate  States  Senator  for 
four  years,  occurs  on  the  list  of  subscribers  to  the  first  Episco- 
pal Church.  He  was  the  eldest  son  of  Judge  Benjamin  John- 
son and  Matilda  Williams,  his  wife,  who  were  among  the 
founders  of  the  sect  called  "The  Disciples  of  Christ,"  in 
Little  Rock.  Robert  W.  Johnson  married  Sarah  Smith,  and 
their  children  were  Ben.  S.,  Robert  (deceased),  Francis  and 
Sarah. 

Benj.  S.  Johnson  was  baptized  in  infancy  in  the  Epis- 
copal Church.  He  married  Lina  Vandergrift.  Their 
children  were  Adele  (deceased)  and  James  Vandergrift,  who 
all  became  members  of  the  Presbyterian  Church. 


156  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

Francis  Johnson,  who  married  May  Fulton  Cur  ran. 
Their  children  are  mentioned  in  his  wife's  line,  Fulton. 

Sarah,  daughter  of  R.  W.  Johnson,  married  J.  Cabell 
Breckinridge.  Their  children  were  John  C,  Laura,  who 
married  John  C.  Ten  Eyck,  and  had  Breckinridge,  Julia, 
and  John,  Robert  (deceased),  and  Benjamin.* 

Irene,  daughter  of  Judge  Benj.  Johnson  and  Matilda 
Williams,  his  wife,  married,  first,  Dr.  John  A.  Jordan.  Their 
children  were  Matilda  Johnson,  Robert  W.,  who  married 
Effie  Williford,  one  child,  Irene  Erne;  Mary,  who  married 
L.  P.  Gibson ;  their  children  are  Irene,  Louise,  and  Helen : 
and  Irene  Jordan  (deceased).  Mrs.  Jordan  was  married  a 
second  time  to  Dr.  C.  M.  Taylor.  Their  daughter  Maude 
married  John  McClintock :  Children,  Alexander,  Robert 
Johnson,  Laura  Breckinridge,  and  John. 

Annie  Sevier,  daughter  of  Juliette  Johnson  and  A.  H. 
Sevier,  granddaughter  of  Judge  Benj.  Johnson  and  Matilda 
Williams,  his  wife,  married  T.  J.  Churchill.  Their  children 
were  Abby  (deceased),  Sevier  (deceased),  Samuel  J.,  who 
married  Katie  Hooper;  children,  Thomas  J.,  Marie,  and 
Hooper;  Juliette  married  R.  L.  Goodrich;  Emily  married 
John  Calef ;  Mattie  married  Edmund  Langhorne;  children, 
Annie  Sevier,  Churchill,  and  Agnes. 

Mattie  Sevier,  daughter  of  Juliette  Johnson  and  Am- 
brose H.  Sevier,  married  Shelby  Williams.       Their  children 


*John  C.  Breckinridge,  here  named  as  a  baptized  member  of  Christ  Church,  was 
in  the  skirmish  which  preceded  the  taking  of  Coamo,  Porto  Rico,  August  11,  1898,  by 
the  Sixteenth  Pennsylvania,  General  Wilson  in  command.  Ten  of  the  Sixteenth  were 
wounded.  Richard  Harding  Davis,  special  correspondent  of  the  Herald,  made  a 
graphic  report  of  the  incident.  "General  Wilson's  two  aids,  Captain  Breckinridge 
and  Lieutenant  Titus,  with  Captain  Paget,  the  British  naval  attache,  and  four  cor- 
respondents (one  of  whom  was  the  narrator)  entered  the  town  in  full  speed  amid 
shouts  and  white  flags,  to  find  it  empty  of  American  troops  and  that  unwittingly  and 
unwillingly  we  had  been  offered  its  surrender !  Captain  Breckinridge  and  Lieutenant 
Titus  looked  at  each  other's  shoulder  straps  and  Lieutenant  Titus  congratulated  his 
superior  officer  on  having  taken  a  town  of  five  thousand  inhabitants  with  six  men. 
Then  they  borrowed  a  flag  of  truce  and  wigwagged  to  the  Sixteenth  that  it  was  safe 
to  come  in." 


RT.  REV.  HENRY  CHAMPLIN  LAY,  D.  D.,  LL.  D, 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  157 

were  Shelby,  who  married  Mrs.  Frazee ;  Maud,  who  married 
Robert  Bonnie;  children,  Mattie  Sevier,  Shelby,  Nannie 
Fassman,  married  Went  worth  Johnston ;  children,  Shelby 
and  Sevier,  a  minor. 

Ambrose  Hundley  Sevier,  who  married  Imogene  Wright, 
was  at  one  time  treasurer  of  Christ  Church.  Children  already 
named  in  his  wife's  line  (Fulton). 


RT.  REV.  HENRY  CHAMPLIN  LAY,  S.  T.  D., 
D.  D.,  LL.  D. 

A.  D.  1823-1860.  Bi.  Bev.  Henry  Champlin  Lay,  S. 
T.  D.,  D.  D.,  LL.  D.,  was  born  at  Richmond,  Va.,  December 
tf,  1823.  He  was  the  second  son  of  John  Olmsted  Lay  and 
Lucy  (May)  Lay,  his  wife.  He  went  to  school  in  Richmond 
and  New  York  City ;  entered  the  University  of  Virginia  Oc- 
tober, 1839  ;  received  the  degree  of  Master  of  Arts  July,  1842. 
While  at  the  university  he  was  confirmed  in  Christ  Church, 
Charlottesville,  Va.,  by  Bishop  Moore ;  studied  theology  at 
the  Virginia  Theological  Seminary,  near  Alexandria.  While 
at  the  Seminary  he  taught  Greek  at  the  Episcopal  High 
School  near  by,  for  some  months ;  was  made  a  Deacon  July, 
1846,  by  Bishop  Meade  and  sent  to  take  charge  of  the 
Churches  in  Lynnhaven  Parish,  Princess  Anne  County,  Va. 
He  remained  there  for  six  months.  He  became  greatly 
attached  to  some  of  the  people,  especially  to  the  family  with 
whom  he  lodged,  and  they  were  much  devoted  to  him,  but 
Bishop  Cobbs,  whom  he  had  known  and  loved  for  seven  years, 
urged  him  to  come  to  his  help.  He  wanted  him  to  take 
charge  of  the  congregation  in  Huntsville,  Ala.,  and  said, 
"Henry,  if  you  could  see  the  field  you  would  not  dare  to 
refuse."       He  was  married  to  Elizabeth  Withers  Atkinson, 


158  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

May  13,  1847,  and  arrived  in  Huntsville  on  June  10.  The 
nearest  Church  or  clergyman  southward  was  150  miles 
away ;  westward,  70  miles ;  northward  the  nearest  was  about 
50  miles  in  the  Diocese  of  Tennessee.  Far  away  to  the 
east,  one  might  be  reached  in  Georgia.  For  four  or  five 
months  he  held  services  in  the  courthouse,  until  a  very  attrac- 
tive, but  small  Church — begun  before  he  came — was  finished. 
There  was  but  one  male  communicant,  who  had  been  a  fellow- 
student  at  the  University  of  Virginia.  In  this  "Church  of 
the  Nativity"  in  Huntsville,  Ala.,  he  was  ordained  Priest,  by 
Bishop  Cobbs,  July,  1848.  In  a  few  years  the  little  Church 
became  far  too  small  and  a  new  and  beautiful  one  was  built. 
Though  not  entirely  complete,  the  first  service  was  held  in  it 
on  Easter  Sunday,  April  24,  1859.  This  he  had  to  leave, 
for  at  the  General  Convention  in  Richmond,  Va.,  on  October 
23  of  that  year,  he  was  consecrated  Missionary  Bishop  of  the 
Southwest  by  Bishops  Meade,  Mcllvaine,  Otey,  Polk,  Whit- 
tingham,  Stephen  Elliott,  Cobbs,  and  Atkinson.  The  juris- 
diction assigned  to  him  consisted  of  Arkansas,  Indian  Ter- 
ritory, New  Mexico,  and  Arizona.  He  began  his  first  visi- 
tation in  December,  1859.  In  April,  1860,  he  set  out  with 
his  family  for  Fort  Smith,  Ark.,  but  owing  to  low  water  in 
the  Arkansas  Piver,  did  not  reach  there  till  June  24. 

A.  D.  1862-1885.  In  March,  18G2,  he  set  off  to  take 
his  family  to  Huntsville,  Ala.,  intending  to  return  to  Arkan- 
sas immediately,  but  on  the  third  morning  after  his  arrival 
there,  the  Federal  troops  entered  the  town  and  for  several 
months  he  was  not  permitted  to  leave.  Once,  he  was  a  close 
prisoner  for  two  weeks,  guarded  day  and  night  by  two  sol- 
diers, one  on  each  side.  Np  sort  of  charge  was  brought 
against  him,  but  he  was  arrested,  solely,  as  being  a  citizen  of 
influence,  in  sympathy  with  the  South.      It  was  hoped  that 


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lie  might  be  induced  to  take  the  oath  of  allegiance  to  the 
United  States,  and  that  thereby  others  might  be  induced  to 
take  it  also.  He  never  took  it.  In  the  autumn,  as  soon  as 
he  could,  he  returned  to  his  jurisdiction.  Most  of  that  win- 
ter was  spent  in  Little  Rock,  holding  services  and  doing  all 
in  his  power  to  help  and  comfort  the  people.  By  request  of 
Bishop  Polk,  who  had  been  made  a  general  in  the  Confederate 
army,  he  made  a  visitation  in  Louisiana.  Early  in  1864, 
having  been  asked  by  Bishop  Elliott  to  hold  confirmation 
service  in  the  Confederate  army  in  Georgia,  he  was  for  some 
months  with  General  Joseph  E.  Johnston's  corps,  and  after- 
wards was  with  it,  when  it  was  under  General  Hood's  com- 
mand. When  the  war  ended  he,  with  Bishop  Atkinson,  of 
J^orth  Carolina,  determined  to  attend  the  General  Conven- 
tion of  1865,  which  met  in  Philadelphia,  Penn.  LIow  much 
inconsiderate  action  their  presence  averted,  it  is  needless  to 
inquire ;  how  much  good  it  did,  can  scarcely  be  estimated ! 
He  returned  to  Arkansas  as  soon  thereafter  as  he  could,  but 
it  was  not  till  late  in  October,  1866,  that  he  brought  his 
family  to  Little  Rock.  In  the  summer  of  1867  he  attended 
the  first  Lambeth  Conference  at  London.*  After  his  return 
to  the  United  States,  at  Cambridge,  he  received  the  degree 
of  LL.  D.  He  had  previously,  while  still  in  Huntsville,  re- 
ceived the  degree  of  S.  T.  D.  from  Hobart  College,  and  after- 
wards that  of  D.  D.,  from  William  and  Mary  College  in  Vir- 
ginia. In  1869  he  was  translated  from  the  Missionary  field 
of  the  Southwest  to  the  Diocese  of  Easton,  in  Maryland.  He 
was  one  of  the  committee  on  the  lectionary  and  spent  much 
time  and  thought  on  the  work.  He  also  spent  much  time  in  the 
work  of  the  committee  on  the  enrichment  of  the  Prayer  Book, 


*Lambeth  Palace  has  been  the  official  residence  of  the  archbishops  of  Canterbury 
for  several  centuries. 


160  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

but  did  not  live  to  see  the  book  authorized  and  printed.  He 
died  in  Baltimore  on  17th  of  September,  1885,  after  an  ill- 
ness of  six  months,  and  was  buried  in  Easton  on  St.  Matthew's 
Day.  Among  his  published  writings  are  "Letters  to  a  Man, 
Bewildered  Among  Many  Counselors,"  "Studies  in  the 
Church,"  "Ready  and  Desirous,"  "The  Mysteries  of  Provi- 
dence," "The  Church  in  the  Nation,"  being  the  Paddock  Lec- 
tures for  1885.  It  was  while  delivering  these  that  he  was 
taken  ill,  and  the  last  lecture  had  to  be  read  by  another. 
They  were  his  last  work.  Besides  these,  there  were  a  good 
many  sermons  and  articles  in  "The  Churchman"  from  his  pen. 
Bishop  Lay's  wife  was  Elizabeth  Withers  Atkinson, 
daughter  of  Roger  B.  Atkinson,  who  was  the  brother  of 
Bishop  Atkinson,  of  Virginia,  and  grandson  of  Mr.  Roger 
Atkinson,  of  Mannsfield,  near  Petersburg.  He  was  the  first 
Atkinson  of  this  family  who  came  to  this  country,  and  was 
an  old  Vestryman  and  staunch  friend  of  the  Church  in  that 
place.  In  Bishop  Meade's  book  "Old  Churches  and 
Families  of  Virginia,"  volume  1,  article  XVII,  page  220, 
there  is  an  extract  from  a  letter  of  his  to  his  brother-in-law, 
Mr.  Samuel  Pleasants,  of  Philadelphia.  In  this  letter, 
written  before  the  Revolutionary  War,  he  draws  the  portraits 
of  the  members  sent  to  the  first  congress  from  Virginia,  before 
the  men  he  wrote  of  had  made  themselves  famous. 

Of  Patrick  Henry  he  says :  "He  is  a  real  half-Quaker — 
your  brother's  man — moderate  and  mild,  and  in  religious  mat- 
ters a  saint ;  but  the  very  d — 1  in  politics — a  son  of  thunder. 
He  will  shake  the  Senate.  Some  years  ago  he  had  liked  to 
have  talked  treason  into  the  House."  Of  Peyton  Randolph 
he  says:  "A  venerable  man,  whom  I  well  know  and  love; 
an  honest  man ;  has  knowledge,  temper,  experience,  judg- 
ment— above  all,  integrity;  a  true  Roman  spirit.  He,  I 
find,  is  chairman.       The  choice  will  do  honor  to  the  judges, 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  161 

and  the  chairman  will  do  honor  to  the  choice."  Of  Richard 
Henry  Lee  he  says :  "I  think  I  know  the  man,  and  I  like 
him :  need  I  say  more  ?  He  was  the  second  choice,  and  he 
was  my  second  choice."  Of  George  Washington  he  says: 
"He  is  a  soldier — a  warrior ;  he  is  a  modest  man ;  sensible ; 
speaks  little;  in  action,  cool,  like  a  Bishop  at  his  prayers." 
Of  Colonel  Bland  he  says :  "A  wary,  old  experienced  veteran 
at  the  bar,  and  in  the  Senate ;  has  something  of  the  look  of 
old  musty  parchments,  which  he  handleth  and  studieth  much. 
He  formerly  wrote  a  treatise  against  the  Quakers  on  water- 
baptism."  Of  Benjamin  Harrison  he  says:  "He  is  your 
neighbor  and  brother-in-law  to  the  Speaker  (Peyton  Ran- 
dolph) :  I  need  not  describe  him.1'  Of  Mr.  Pendleton  he 
says :  ''The  last  and  best,  though  all  good.  The  last  shall 
be  first  says  the  Scripture.  He  is  an  humble  and  religious 
man  and  must  be  exalted.  He  is  a  sriiooth-tongued  speaker, 
and,  though  not  so  old,  may  be  compared  to  old  Nestor — 

"  'Experienced  Nestor,  in  persuasion  skill'd 
Words  sweet  as  honey  from  his  lips  distill' d'  ' 

A.  D.  1 658.  Mrs.  Lay  is  also  eighth  in  direct  lineal 
descent  from  Richard  Bennett,  one  of  the  Colonial  Commis- 
sioners, who  was  elected  governor  of  Virginia,  to  succeed  Sir 
Wm.  Berkeley,  and  who  retired  from  office  March  13,  1658, 
having, been  succeeded  by  Edward  Digges.  She  is  also 
sixth  in  lineal  descent  from  Richard  Bland,  who  married 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Colonel  William  Randolph.  The 
Bennetts,  Randolphs,  and  Blands  were  her  paternal  ancestors. 
On  her  mother's  side  she  ascends  through  her  grandmotherr 
Elizabeth  Withers,  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Grammar,  whom  Bishop 
Meade  describes  as  "saintly  people,  on  whom,  for  a  consid- 
erable time,  by  general  consent,  the  very  existence  of  the  Epis- 
copal Church  in  Petersburg  seemed  to  hang.  I  need  not 
speak,  or  seek  for  any  epitaph.  They  live  in  the  hearts  of 
children    and    children's    children    yet    alive,    and    in    the 


162  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

memories  of  many  others  who  revere  their  characters  and  en- 
deavor to  follow  their  example.  The  social  prayer  meetings 
held  at  their  house,  when  the  old  lady  was  unable  any  longer 
to  go  to  the  House  of  God,  were  refreshing  seasons  to  minis- 
ters and  people.'' — Vol.  1,  art.  XL.,  page  447. 

Mr.  Thomas  Withers  lived  "hard  by  the  Old  Saponey 
Church,"  and  Mrs.  Withers  "taught  a  Sunday  School  there 
for  many  years,  often  entirely  unaided."  After  Henry 
Champlin  Lay,  when  a  youth  of  eighteen,  was  graduated  at 
the  University  of  Virginia  as  master  of  arts,  he  taught  for 
two  years  before  he  entered  the  Theological  Seminary.  "Dur- 
ing these  two  years  he  was  a  regular  teacher  in  the  Sunday 
School  at  Old  Saponey,  and  in  this  way  gave  help  to  the  old 
lady,  who  continued  to  teach  there,  furnishing  all  the  books, 
tickets,  prizes,  etc.,  that  were  needed.  She  and  her  husband 
had  the  Church  cleaned,  fires  made,  etc.,  for  fifty  years." 

Into  this  atmosphere  of  piety  and  brotherly  love  came 
the  young  university  student,  and  for  his  reverence  and  zeal 
was  rewarded  by  Providence  with  the  blessing  of  a  wife 
trained  under  the  same  spirit  and  influences,  for  he  after- 
wards married  the  granddaughter  and  namechild  of  this 
saintly  old  lady.  That  this  influence  was  the  predominat- 
ing one  of  her  life,  is  shown  by  her  reply  to  the  question, 
"Why  are  you  not  an  associate  member  of  the  Society  of 
Colonial  Dames  of  America  ?"  "Because  that  takes  time 
and  money." 

The  children  of  Bishop  Henry  C.  Lay  and  Elizabeth 
Withers  Atkinson,  his  wife,  were  nine.  Five  died  young. 
Of  these,  Thomas  Atkinson  died  in  Fort  Smith,  Ark.,  and 
Elizabeth  Withers  in  Little  Rock. 

Henry  C,  the  oldest  living  child,  is  a  civil  and  mining 
engineer,  and  superintendent  of  public  schools  in  San  Miguel 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST  CHURCH    PARISH.  163 

County,  Colo.  Resides  in  Telluride,  Colo.  He  is  un- 
married. 

Georff&  is  a  Priest  of  the  Church  and  a  Master  at  St. 
Paul's  School,  Concord,  N.  H.?  of  which  Rev.  Dr.  Joseph 
Coit  is  Rector.  He  was  married  in  Baltimore  in  June, 
1894,  to  Anna  Balch,  a  daughter  of  Rear  Admiral  Balch,  who 
was  retired  and  lives  there.  They  have  two  children,  George 
Balch  and  Elizabeth  Atkinson. 

Beirne  is  a  Master  at  St.  Paul's  School.  Both  George 
and  Beirne  went  to  St.  Paul's  School  and  afterwards  gradu- 
ated at  Yale.     Beirne  Lay  is  unmarried. 

Louisa  Lay  was  born  in  Little  Rock. 

OUR  LORD,  THE  PATTERN  TO  THE  BISHOPS  OF 
HIS    CHURCH:  — 

A  sermon  preached  in  Grace  Church,  in  the  City  of  New 
York,  on  the  occasion  of  the  consecration  of  the  Rev.  Charles 
Franklin  Robertson,  S.  T.  D.,  as  Bishop  of  Missouri,  by 
Henry  Champlin  Lay,  D.  D.,  LL.  D.,  Missionary  Bishop  of 
the  Southwest : 

The  consecration  of  the  Rev.  Charles  Franklin  Robert- 
son, D.  D.,  to  the  Episcopate  of  Missouri^  took  place  on  the 
morning  of  the  twentieth  Sunday  after  Trinity,  October  25, 
A.  D.  1868,  at  Grace  Church,  in  the  city  of  New  York. 
Prayers  were  read  by  the  Rev.  Josiah  P.  Tustinx  D.  D.,  of  the 
Diocese  of  Michigan,  assisted  by  the  Rev.  Sidney  Corbett,  of 
the  Diocese  of  Illinois,  and  the  Rev.  John  C.  Middleton  of 
the  Diocese  of  Connecticut. 

The  testimonials  of  the  Bishop  elect  were  read  by  the 
Rev.  William  Stevens  Perry,  Secretary  of  the  House  of  Cler- 
ical and  Lay  Deputies,  and  the  Rev.  Henrv  C.  Potter,  D.  D., 
Secretary  of  the  House  of  Bishops.   The  clergy  in  attendance 


164  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

from  the  Diocese  of  Missouri  were  the  Rev.  Edward  F.  Berk- 
ley, D.  D.,  of  St.  Louis,  and  the  Rev.  William  B.  Corbyn, 
D.  D.,  of  Palmyra.  The  presiding  Bishop  was  assisted  in  the 
services  by  the  Bishops  of  Michigan,  Virginia,  Iowa  and  New 
York.  The  sermon  was  preached  by  the  Missionary  Bishop 
of  Arkansas.  A  large  attendance  of  the  clerical  and  lay 
deputies  of  the  General  Convention,  together  with  a  congre- 
gation filling  every  portion  of  the  spacious  Church  chosen 
for  this  interesting  ceremony,  attested  a  widespread  interest 
in  these  services.,  which  were  to  add  another  to  the  number 
of  our  Bishops,  and  give  to  a  bereaved  Diocese  its  chosen 
head.  The  Holy  Communion  was  administered  to  a  large  num- 
ber of  the  clergy  and  laity. 

At  the  close  of  services,  the  presiding  Bishop  having 
called  the  Bishops  and  clergy  together,  on  motion  of  the  Rev. 
William  Stevens  Perry,  the  thanks  of  the  Bishops  and  clergy 
in  attendance  were  unanimously  tendered  to  the  Right  Rev. 
Dr.  Lay,  for  the  discourse  just  delivered,  and  a  copy  of  the 
same  respectfully  requested  for  publication. 

SERMON. 

"When  the  chief  Shepherd  shall  appear,  ye  shall  receive  a 
crown  of  glory  that  fadcth  not  away." — 1  Peter  v.  4. 

The  names  and  titles  of  our  Blessed  Lord  have  ever 
furnished  to  devout  minds  themes  of  pleasant  meditation. 
No  one  epithet  can  adequately  describe  Him ;  and  thus 
prophet  and  psalmist,  apostle  and  evangelist,  and  angel  of  the 
annunciation  and  the  Exile  of  Patmos,  have  united  to  ransack 
the  stores  of  language,  to  draw  from  them  its  sublimest 
words  and  its  most  endearing  epithets,  thus  accumulating 
around  the  person  of  our  Lord  every  title  of  worth  and  dignity 
until  His  name,  in  itself  secret  and  incommunicable,  is 
poured  forth    as    ointment    and    diffused    throughout    His 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  165 

Church  in  the  hundred  varying  titles  which  express  His 
majesty  and  His  mercy. 

Seldom,  indeed,  does  the  Church  make  mention  of  her 
Lord  without  adding  some  words  expressive  of  her  reverence 
and  affection.  She  has  no  sympathy  with  the  unseeming 
familiarity  which  utters  commonly  the  name  of  Jesus  with  no 
added  word  of  honor ;  she  invokes  Him  ever  by  some  sacred 
title ;  she  speaks  to  us  of  Him  with  some  reverent  description 
of  His  person  or  of  His  work ;  she  varies  that  description 
with  the  occasion  of  her  speech.  At  the  bedside  of  the  suf- 
ferer, Christ  is  "the  Saviour  of  the  world,  who,  by  His  cross 
and  passion  has  redeemed  us."  Beside  the  open  grave,  He 
ic  "The  Resurrection  and  the  Life ;"  and  yet  again  in  the  In- 
stitution office  and  in  the  Ordinal,  she  adopts  the  language 
favorite  with  St.  Peter ;  she  pleads  "Thy  merits,  O  Blessed 
Jesus,  Thou  gracious  Bishop  and  Shepherd  of  our  souls!" 
She  encourages  her  newly-consecrated  Bishop  with  the  prayer 
that  "When  the  Chief  Shepherd  shall  appear,"  he  may 
receive  the  never-fading  crown  of  glory. 

Times  there  are,  my  brethren,  in  the  experience  of  life, 
when  one  or  another  of  our  Lord's  titles  falls  upon  the  ear  with 
singular  sweetness.  Times  there  are  of  new  trial  and  added 
responsibility,  when  there  flashes  upon  us  the  true  force  and 
meaning  of  some  word  that  has  been  familiar  to  the  ear  and 
often  upon  the  lips.  Thus  is  it  with  the  name  before  us. 
While  every  Christian  delights  to  say  "The  Lord  is  my 
Shepherd,"  who  can,  as  the  Shepherd  and  the  Bishop  of 
Christ's  flock,  realize  the  comfort  and  the  awfulness  of  the 
thought,  that  there  is  One  who  is  himself  Bishop  and  Chief 
Shepherd ;  One  who  has  exercised  in  person  the  ministry  and 
oversight  entrusted  to  us ;  One  in  whose  steps  we  tread,  and 
at  whose  feet  each  pastoral  staff  is  presently  to  be  laid.  Our 
Lord's  life  on  earth  is  the  fair  pattern,  which  none  of  us 
indeed  can  equal,  but  which  men  in  every  station  must  strive 
to  copy  and  reproduce.  Woe  is  unto  us,  if  we  accept  as  our 
ideal  anything  below  His  sinless  example  and  His  finished 
work !  Our  little  children  find  in  Him  the  example  of  filial 
duty ;  to  Him  we  are  wont  to  direct  the  eves  of  the  worker 


166  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

and  the  sufferer.  And  is  there  no  special  lesson  in  that  life 
for  those  to  whom  chiefly  He  has  confided  the  interests  dearest 
to  His  heart  ?  As  man,  we  present  Him  as  the  example  for 
all  men  to  follow;  as  Bishop  and  chief  Pastor  well  may  we 
present  Him  to  ourselves.  Well  may  the  Church,  in  form- 
ing her  estimate  of  the  Episcopal  office,  and  in  determining 
the  qualifications  which  should  belong  to  the  chief  Pastors, 
keep  ever  in  her  view  the  Holy  One,  her  Chief  Shepherd  and 
the  Bishop  of  our  souls. 

Our  Lord,  the  Pattern  to  the  Bishops  of  His 
Church.  Such  is  the  lesson  which  we  attempt  to  unfold  to- 
day; a  theme  so  sacred  and  so  beautiful  that  we  approach  it 
tremblingly  and  with  awe.  Far  be  it  from  us,  like  the  un- 
believers or  half-believers  of  the  day,  to  criticise  the  sacred 
story,  and  self -complacently  to  express  our  approbation  of  the 
words  and  methods  of  the  Master ;  no !  we  stand  in  the  pres- 
ence of  an  incarnate  wisdom  too  vast  for  us  to  judge :  and 
upon  bended  knee  we  follow  the  traces  of  its  march  on  earth, 
happy  if  we  may  unquestioning  tread  where  Christ's  sacred 
feet  have  left  their  impress. 

In  our  Lord's  work  as  in  His  person,  the  human  and  the 
divine  so  shade  into  each  other  that  we  can  draw  no  absolute 
line  of  demarcation.  Without  pretending  to  divide,  we  may 
yet  distinguish  two  elements  in  the  office  He  discharged  to- 
wards His  infant  Church.  He  was  its  Bishop  and  its  Para- 
clete. When  He  Avent  away  to  Heaven,  the  divine  function 
was  assumed  by  that  other  Comforter,  that  ever-blessed  Crea- 
tor-Spirit, whose  living  presence  in  the  Church  gives  to  the 
consecration  in  which  we  are  presently  to  engage  all  its  energy 
and  truth;  and  the  human  function,  the  earthly  Episcopate, 
was  conferred  upon  the  College  of  the  Apostles  and  their  suc- 
cessors in  office  until  the  end  of  the  world. 

We  may  not  even  for  a  moment  leave  out  of  mind  that 
divinity  which  separates  by  so  vast  an  interval  the  Chief  Shep- 
herd from  those  who  are  now  set  to  feed  His  flock;  but  we 
may  yet,  I  trust,  without  irreverence,  fasten  our  thoughts  upon 
the  human  aspent  of  our  Lord's  work  on  earth,  and  analyze  the 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  167 

character  of  His  Episcopate,   as  furnishing  that  true  ideal 
which  the  Church  should  ever  seek  to  realize. 

Let  us  then  recall  our  Lord's  Episcopate  in  His  inter- 
course with  His  Pastors,  in  the  guidance  of  the  Laity,  and  yet 
again  in  its  personal  characteristics.       We  are  to  consider, 

I. — The  Chief  Shepherd  Among  His  Pastors. 

And  here  we  are  reminded  at  once,  what  unceasing  care, 
and  labor,  and  diligence,  our  Master  expended  upon  His  sub- 
ordinates in  the  sacred  ministry ;  a  care  almost  disproportion- 
ate, one  might  say,  in  view  of  the  multitudes  who  thronged 
His  path  and  hung  upon  His  words.  Careful  He  was  to 
select  from  among  the  believers  such  as  He  deemed  competent 
to  this  sacred  function.  How  imperatively  He  summoned 
the  fisherman  from  his  net  and  the  publican  from  his  engage- 
ments !  and  how  distinctly  He  repelled  the  proffered  service 
of  such  as  would  volunteer  in  His  cause,  without  realizing  its 
responsibilities  and  trials ! 

To  say  that  He  was  accessible  to  His  clergy  would  be  a 
weak  statement.  He  kept  them  habitually  about  His  per- 
son, He  was  seldom  separated  from  them;  and  this,  although 
He  was  doubtless  often  weary  of  company,  and  longed  for 
the  repose  of  solitude  and  the  society  of  His  uninterrupted 
thought.  He  did  not  merely  instruct  them  in  the  duties  of 
their  office ;  He  carried  them  with  Him !  He  showed  them  by 
example  how  ignorance  should  be  enlightened,  how  suffering 
should  be  relieved,  how  favor  should  be  borne,  how  agony 
should  be  endured. 

With  what  marvellous  skill  did  He  train  and  strengthen 
them  for  usefulness !  as  they  made  progress  in  Christian 
virtue,  detaching  them  from  His  person,  yet  even  then  only 
for  brief  periods,  and  in  little  companies,  so  that  one  might 
strengthen  another;  leading  them  from  one  responsibility  to 
another,  from  lesser  trials  to  greater,  now  exposing  them  to 
danger  with  Himself  in  the  bark,  and  presently  dismissing 
them  to  buffet  the  storm  alone,  unknowing  that  He  upon  the 
mountain  top  watched  for  their  safety,  thus  leading  them  on 


168  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

step  by  step  until  that  sorrowful  moment  when  His  visible 
presence  was  altogether  withdrawn. 

Wonderfully  considerate  was  the  Chief  Shepherd  of  His 
colaborers.  He  would  not  overwork  them.  "Come  ye 
yourselves  apart  into  a  desert  place^  and  rest  awhile ;  for 
there  were  many  coming  and  going,  and  they  had  no  leisure 
so  much  as  to  eat."  Wonderfully  patient  was  He  with  their 
defects  of  understanding  and  their  infirmities  of  spirit.  How 
did  He  bear  with  the  unintelligence  of  Philip,  the  melancholy 
of  Thomas,  the  impetuosity  of  Peter !  and  then  what  mingled 
familiarity  and  dignity  in  His  intercourse  with  them  all !  He 
treated  them  as  friends  rather  than  as  subordinates !  and  yet 
there  was  a  line  of  reverence  which  they  might  not  overpass. 

If  Peter,  overzealous  for  His  Master's  reputation,  under- 
takes that  He  shall  pay  His  quota  towards  sustaining  the  ser- 
vices of  the  Temple,  He  rebukes  him  for  the  concession  of  the 
claim,  while  yet  He  works  a  miracle  rather  than  expose  His. 
disciple  to  the  mortification  of  failing  to  meet  the  engagement. 
And  then,  how  beautiful  the  picture  of  John  leaning  on  the 
Chief  Shepherd's  bosom !  In  that  holy  familiarity,  how  mar- 
vellously do  we  see  the  profoundest  reverence  reconciled  with 
the  most  genial  friendship. 

In  view  of  these  things,  we  do  not  fear  to  affirm  that 
every  Christian  Bishop  should  regard  himself  first  and  chiefly 
as  the  Pastor  of  Pastors ;  and  among  his  varied  responsibili- 
ties and  duties  should  set  in  the  foremost  place,  those  which 
appertain  to  the  calling  of  men  to  sacred  ministries,  prepar- 
ing them  for  their  work,  directing  them  in  its  prosecution,  sus- 
taining them  under  its  trials.  Xot  content  to  accept  such  as 
come  to  him,  to  preside  over  their  deliberations,  to  interpose 
when  some  great  mischief  impends,  he  who  patterns  after 
that  perfect  example  will  identify  himself  with  those  in  holy 
orders,  and  expend  upon  them  the  chief  of  his  strength  and 
the  wealth  of  his  affections. 

There  is  much  complaint  in  these  days  of  the  deficiency 
of  clergymen.  We  have  need  to  exhort  parents  to  consecrate 
their  children  to  the  service  of  the  altar,   and  the  laity  in 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  169 

general  to  facilitate  the  theological  education  and  to  sustain 
the  clergy.  But  we  must  not  forget  that  ordaining,  sending 
and  laying  hands  upon  others  is  peculiarly  the  function  of  the 
Bishop.  It  is  his  special  duty  to  make  choice  of  fit  persons  to 
serve  in  the  sacred  ministry ;  to  suggest  its  claims  to  young 
men  before  their  profession  is  chosen,  to  call  into  its 
ranks  such  as  seem  adapted  for  its  holy  employments.  What 
if  it  seem  cruel  to  separate  the  sons  of  Zebedee  from  an  aged 
parent !  what  though  the  world  may  deem  it  extravagant  to 
summon  men  from  lucrative  employments  to  comparative 
poverty !  The  Gospel  must  be  preached,  and  we  must  send 
the  men  to  preach  it.  Surely  we  do  not  err,  if,  following  our 
Lord's  example,  we  break  in  upon  men's  repose ;  now  demand- 
ing, authoritatively,  Go  thou  and  preach  the  Gospel ;  now 
entreating,  lovingly,  Come  with  us,  and  be  with  us  fishers  of 
men. 

The  Bishop  should  be  the  friend  and  father  of  his  clergy, 
extending  to  them  a  larger  measure  of  confidence  and  sym- 
pathy than  it  is  possible  to  give  to  all  the  members  of  the  flock. 
Nor  is  this  any  disadvantage  to  the  flock ;  for  each  instruction 
and  consolation  afforded  the  clergymen,  is  diffused  through 
him  to  hundreds  within  his  care.  How  much  do  pastors  need 
a  Pastor !  How  instinctively  does  the  Priest  or  the  Deacon  in 
his  doubts  and  anxieties,  in  distress  and  need,  look  to  his 
Bishop !  How  little  does  the  world  know  of  the  filial  confi- 
dence and  the  fatherly  benignity,  the  touching  story  of  morti- 
fications and  trials  told  without  reserve,  the  gentle  pity  and 
manly  encouragement,  which  have  often  characterized  the 
correspondence  between  the  Bishops  and  their  clergy !  Oh, 
how  wondrous  is  the  power  of  a  Bishop  who  is  a  true  father 
to  his  clergy !  How  does  he  mould  the  opinions  of  the  help- 
ers, and  impart  to  them  his  methods,  and  infuse  his  own  great 
thought  into  the  minds  of  others ! 

The  Chief  Shepherd  had  ever  patience  with  His  apostles. 
He  explained  things  to  them  when  they  were  alone  together. 
He  rebuked  them,  and  sharply  too,  sometimes,  but  never,  that 
I  can  recollect,  in  the  presence  of  the  people,  where  their  credit 
might  be  impaired.       He  wrung  the  very  soul  of  Peter  once 


170  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

with  His  rebuke,  and  yet  while  He  rebuked,  renewed  the 
expression  of  His  confidence  and  uttered  no  harsher  word 
than  "Simon,  son  of  Jonas,  lovest  thou  Me?" — And  oh, 
brethren,  a  Bishop  after  this  pattern;  who  stands  in  the 
center  of  the  sacred  order ;  not  afraid  to  take  responsibility, 
but  serene  and  firm,  teaching  men  of  less  experience  and 
more  timid  nature ;  the  Bishop  who  under  no  conceivable  cir- 
cumstances will  admit  that  any  competition  of  interests  can 
exist  between  himself  and  his  brethren,  and  in  the  midst  of 
f  rowardness  thinks  only  how  to  bring  about  a  better  mind ; 
the  Bishop  who  can  enlighten  ignorance  without  wounding 
self-respect,  who  can  direct  energies  without  fettering  them 
by  undue  interference,  whose  ready  sympathy  never  wearies, 
whose  cordial  affection  sustains  his  clergy  in  all  their 
troubles ;  such  a  Bishop  may  be  after  all  but  an  earthen  vessel, 
but  in  that  poor  earth  men  will  recognize  the  outline  and  the 
likeness  of  Him  in  whom  dwelt  all  the  fulness  of  the  God- 
head bodily,  the  Chief  Shepherd  and  Bishop  of  our  souls. 

How  can  we  fail  to  observe  the  persistence  with  which 
our  Lord  sought  to  elevate  His  chosen  ones  in  their  self- 
estimate  and  in  the  esteem  of  the  people !  When  He  fed 
multitudes,  did  He  not  give  them  an  important  share  in  that 
work  of  love  ?  Did  He  not  advise  with  them  when  He  him- 
self knew  what  He  would  do  ?  Did  He  not  leave  it  to  them 
to  baptize  the  converts  to  the  faith  ?  Did  He  not  within 
limits  admit  them  into  the  mystery  of  His  own  griefs  and 
troubles  ?  With  tmch  an  example  well  may  the  Bishop  learn 
to  make  much  of  his  clergy ;  studiously  to  honor  them  before 
the  people ;  to  choose  from  among  them  his  confidants,  and 
to  invite  the  same  sympathy  which  he  is  so  often  called  upon 
to  extend.  But,  brethren,  all  this  is  impracticable  unless 
there  be  something  of  dignified  reserve,  some  recognitions  of 
official  superiority.  We  dare  not  claim  for  ourselves  such 
reverence,  such  obedience,  as  the  sinless  One  did  rightly  claim. 
But  as  rulers  in  God's  family,  and  in  the  following  of  Christ's 
example,  the  Bishop  should  know  how  to  assert  the  dignity  of 
his  office,  how  to  repel  unwarrantable  freedoms,  and  how  to 


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THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  171 

keep  easy   and  confidential  friendship   from  slipping  down 
into  unseemly  familiarity. 

But  I  may  not  dwell  further  upon  this  theme  which  has 
rather  been  suggested  than  expounded.     Let  us  consider, 

II. — The  Chief  Shepherd  among  His  People. 

If  we  regard  our  Lord  as  a  Bishop  among  His  people,  we 
recognize  at  once  the  fact  that  He  was  the  chief  preacher 
within  His  self-appointed  diocese  of  Judea.  If  we  think  of 
Him  as  the  Missionary  Bishop  (for  such  He  truly  was),  how 
great  the  activity  of  His  personal  ministry !  The  sermons 
and  the  labors  which  are  recorded  are  but  specimens  of  his 
toil.  Had  the  whole  been  written,  St.  John  intimates  that 
the  volumes  of  that  record  would  have  been  innumerable.  In 
public  and  in  private,  by  the  seaside  and  on  the  mount,  at 
the  rich  man's  table,  in  the  synagogue  and  in  the  porches  of 
the  temple,  He  ceased  not  to  teach  and  to  preach.  He  drove 
back  His  sorrows  resolutely  into  His  own  breast,  and  taught 
still  in  His  trouble.  In  the  very  presence  of  death  He  kept 
not  silence  but  spake  still  of  the  Comforter. 

Think  of  the  long  journeys,  the  villages  visited  in  succes- 
sion, the  long  continued  speech  to  attentive  crowds,  the 
patient  dealing  with  an  individual  soul,  the  pause  to  bless  the 
little  babes,  the  thoughtfulness  that  encouraged  Zaccheus  to 
stand  forth  and  speak  out  his  religious  purpose.  Brethren, 
how  plain  is  this  instruction !  Make  all  allowance  necessary 
to  be  made  for  a  religion  in  its  infancy  which  could  be  spread 
only  by  the  living  voice;  grant  that  in  our  day  the  Bishop 
must  often  sit  alone  and  think ;  must  plan  and  organize  and 
shape  work  for  other  hands ;  and  still  there  stands  plain 
before  us  the  lesson  that  the  Bishop  must  go  about  doing 
good,  and  as  he  goes  must  preach.  He  cannot  do  all  the 
work  himself;  it  were  vain  to  attempt  it;  but  he  can  lead  the 
way ;  he  can  show  his  willingness  to  share  in  whatever  toils 
and  hardships  belong  to  the  clergy ;  he  can  by  his  example 
teach  others  how  to  recognize  an  opportunity  and  then  how 
to  use  it;  by  his  dealing    with  an    individual    soul  he    can 


172  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

instruct  the  unexperienced  man  of  God,  as  books  would  never 
teach  him,  how  to  silence  the  disputations,  to  cheer  the 
penitent,  to  comfort  the  mourner. 

And  this  reminds  us  of  that  wondrous  prudence  which 
characterized  our  Master's  ministrations  among  the  people. 
What  contradiction  of  sinners  against  Himself  did  He  en- 
dure !  What  a  throng  of  captious,  prejudiced,  unreasonable 
men  surrounded  Him.  But  He  aroused  no  unnecessary  pre- 
judice; again  and  again  he  stayed  His  speech  or  withdrew 
His  person  to  avoid  tumult.  If  men  addressed  Him  with 
artful  words  intending  to  entrap  Him,  He  did  not  hesitate  to 
avoid  the  false  issue,  and  to  retort  upon  them  the  sharp  ques- 
tion. How  often  did  He  make  men  who  pretended  ignor- 
ance, answer  themselves,  and  turn  away  self-condemned  by 
the  exposure  of  their  insincerity !  How  varied  his  teaching- 
according  to  circumstances  and  persons  !  In  his  example  we 
find  no  warrant  for  that  narrowness  which  utters  ever  the 
same  formula  and  the  same  doctrine  to  all  sorts  of  people.  To 
the  self-complacent  Pharisee  He  held  up  the  better  example 
of  the  half-heathen  Samaritan,  while  presently  conversing 
with  the  Samaritan  He  identifies  Himself  with  the  Jews,  and 
affirms  the  authority  of  the  Jewish  Church.  He  taught  the 
doctrine  of  the  new  birth  of  man's  nature  to  one  half-hearted 
and  secret  inquirer — while  to  Nathanael  He  uttered  words 
of  commendation  only.  I  need  not  multiply  illustrations. 
These  things  assure  us  that  the  Christian  Bishop  should, 
while  valiant  for  the  truth,  be  wise  enough  to  avoid  useless 
controversy ;  while  doing  good  to  others,  be  careful  to  protect 
himself  from  needless  animadversion.  They  tell  us  that  the 
Bishop  should  be  large-minded  in  his  work;  not  going  out 
furnished  with  a  few  set  phrases  or  favorite  dogmas,  thrown 
out  without  discrimination ;  but  richly  stored  with  all  true 
doctrine  and  all  right  words,  rightly  dividing  the  blessed 
truth ;  giving  to  each  man  his  portion — urging  repentance 
upon  one,  confession  upon  another ;  now  persuading  a  man  to 
believe  and  now  to  do  some  act  of  self-sacrifice;  now  rising  in 
indignation  at  the  profanation  of  holy  things,  and  now  pro- 
testing against  the  lading  of  unnecessary  burdens  upon  the 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  173 

conscience  of  the  faithful.  There  is  nothing  in  our  Lord's 
life  and  example  to  encourage  a  narrow  partyism.  liow  won- 
drously  different,  some  might  say  almost  contradictory,  were 
His  utterances  according  to  the  occasion  that  prompted  His 
speech !  Persistently  did  He  press  the  deep  and  spiritual 
truths  of  religion,  yet  did  He  not  hesitate  to  give  His  testi- 
mony to  the  value  of  things  external.  There  is  a  singular 
humanness  in  our  Lord's  hovering  around  the  temple  during 
that  sad  week  of  expectancy  which  preceded  His  death.  We 
know  how  a  certain  restlessness  comes  over  men  when  death 
is  near,  and  who,  though  they  have  wandered  far,  they  come 
home  to  die.  And  as  we  read  the  story  of  the  brief  road  so 
often  traversed  between  Bethany  and  Jerusalem,  the  lingering 
in  the  temple,  the  pause  in  the  twilight,  and  the  musing  eye 
fixed  still  on  Zion,  we  recognize  the  truth  that  our  Lord  not 
only  loved  His  Father,  but  held  also  in  affection  His  Father's 
house. 

The  Bishop,  least  of  all  men,  should  be  the  slave  of  party 
or  of  prejudices.  Sobriety  of  judgment,  love  of  truth, 
should  characterize  all  his  ministrations.  JSTo  ridicule 
should  avail  to  make  him  ashamed  of  the  system  which  he  ad- 
ministers, to  hide  its  true  features,  or  to  explain  it  away  to 
meet  the  demands  of  miscalled  charity ;  while  no  admiration 
of  a  system  or  a  method  should  restrain  him  from  keeping 
always  in  the  foreground  the  great  essential  truths  destined 
to  survive  when  all  systems  shall  have  passed  away. 

If  we  analyze  in  its  human  aspects  that  influence  which 
our  Lord  wielded  over  the  masses,  we  cannot  fail  to  observe 
that  it  was  largely  due  to  the  commingling  of  gentleness  with 
severity  ;  of tenest  He  was  gentle ;  most  full  of  pity,  affable  and 
ready  to  make  allowance ;  oftenest  but  not  always.  He  was 
the  Lamb  of  God,  but  when  occasion  demanded  He  showed 
Himself  in  the  majesty  of  holy  wrath,  the  Lion  of  the  tribe 
of  Judah.  Strange  that  a  speech  so  full  of  gentleness  should 
rise  at  times  into  so  fearful  an  invective.  But  who  save  the 
habitually  gentle  can  rightly  be  severe  ?  what  wrath  can  so 
terrify  the  evildoer  as  the  wrath  of  the  Lamb  ?  Listen  to  that 
fearful   denunciation :      "Woe  unto  von   Scribes  and   Phari- 


174  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

sees,  hypocrites!"  Woe  follows  upon  woe,  anathema  upon 
anathema,  straining  our  hearts  as  He  approaches  the  climax, 
and  almost  alarming  us  lest  when  it  be  reached  He  shall 
remand  them  all  into  the  hands  of  inexorable  justice.  But 
when  all  that  torrent  of  burning  words  has  been  uttered,  and 
while  the  threat  of  "the  damnation  of  hell"  rings  into  our  ears 
and  thrills  the  inmost  soul,  there  succeeds  by  most  abrupt 
transition  the  wail  of  pity,  a  cry  of  anguish  such  as  defiance 
itself  can  scarce  resist:  "O  Jerusalem!  O  Jerusalem!"  The 
Avorld  has  enough  of  stern  critics,  and  bitter  censors ;  but,  oh, 
sweet  pity !  angel  of  healing  and  of  consolation  !  If  thou  hast 
n  home  on  earth,  it  should  be  in  the  breast  of  a  Christian 
Bishop,  causing  him^  like  his  Master,  as  he  looks  upon  the 
guilty  city,  to  weep  over  it,  teaching  him  where  men  discover 
only  the  sin,  to  recognize  the  sorrow,  where  men  condemn,  to 
utter  words  of  absolution.  Gentle  pity !  be  thou  in  our 
hearts,  and  how  tenderly  shall  we  bind  up  the  spiritual  wound, 
and  how  patiently  will  the  sufferer  endure  the  pains  of  heal- 
ing !  and  then  in  the  presence  of  wrong  and  outrage.,  of  veiled 
hypocrisy  and  shameless  effrontery,  who  can  as  the  pitiful 
and  the  gentle  abash  the  scorner  and  terrify  the  wrongdoer, 
while  he  denounces  against  them  the  judgments  of  the  Most 
High !  Such  is  the  example  afforded  by  this  Chief  Bishop 
among  His  flock !  ruling  His  people  prudently,  with  all  His 
power,  yet  gentle  among  them  even  as  a  nurse  cherisheth  her 
children. 

I  pass  on  to  consider — 

III. — The  Chief  Shepherd,  with  Reverence  be  it 
Spoken,  in  the  Personal  Characteristics  of 
His  Episcopate. 

How  overwhelming  is  the  thought  that  He,  the  sinless 
one,  used  self-discipline;  the  discipline  of  fastings,  watchings 
and  voluntary  retirement ;  that  He,  the  all-wise,  chose  not  the 
twelve,  but  after  a  night  spent  in  prayer !  that  He  illustrated 
by  His  example  what  He  taught  us  in  precept,  of  certain 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  175 

fierce  professions,  "this  kind  can  come  forth  by  nothing  but 
by  prayer  and  fasting." 

How  single  minded  was  He  in  His  work !  What  cared 
He  for  on  earth  save  the  welfare  of  His  infant  Church  % 
What  were  meat  and  drink  to  Him  save  as  they  strengthened 
Him  for  this  gracious  task  %  and  yet  how  void  was  He  of  all 
asceticism !  He  came  eating  and  drinking  like  other  men ; 
He  dined  with  the  rich  man  on  the  Sabbath  day ;  He  was 
known  as  the  friend  of  publicans  and  sinners ;  He  disregarded 
the  ablutions  and  artificial  tests  of  piety,  of  which  the  religion- 
ists of  that  day  made  so  much.  We  are  not  left  without 
numerous  intimations  of  a  constant  regard  to  the  welfare  of 
His  flock  in  His  life  and  conduct.  Recall  such  passages  as 
these :  "For  their  sakes  I  sanctify  Myself ;"  "Notwithstand- 
ing lest  we  offend  them,"  do  thus  and  so.  "The  good  shep- 
herd" (He  seems  here  as  in  soliloquy,  to  utter  the  secret  of 
His  own  pastorate),  "when  he  putteth  forth  his  own  sheep, 
goeth  before  them."  "While  I  was  with  them  in  the  world, 
I  kept  them  in  Thy  name."  These  and  the  like  utterances 
assure  us  how  deeply  the  chief  Pastor  realized  the  respon- 
sibility laid  upon  Him  in  the  guidance  of  the  flock,  and  how 
He  ordered  all  His  life  with  reference  to  that  responsibility. 

Thus,  brethren  beloved  in  the  Lord,  have  I  attempted  to 
speak  to  you  of  a  theme  which  I  am  not  able  to  expound.  But 
thus  much,  perchance,  our  j)oor  words  may  have  impressed 
upon  you  for  a  moment,  that  the  blessed  Jesus,  King,  and 
Priest^  and  Prophet,  is  our  Bishop,  too;  One  who  has  borne 
the  pastoral  staff  on  earth,  and  who  did  thus  bear  it,  not  only 
in  love  for  the  flock,  but  for  the  guidance  of  such  as  He 
should  set  over  them  in  the  latter  days.  Well  may  we  study 
this  pattern  !  and  well  may  the  Church  seek  to  put  in  her  chief 
places  Bishops  eminent  for  those  qualities  which  makes  them 
most  like  the  Chief  Bishop ;  men  of  lofty  self-consecration, 
men  of  gentle  hearts,  men  of  prudence  and  discretion ;  men 
who  will  take  heed  to  themselves  and  to  all  the  flock  over 
which  the  Holy  Ghost  hath  made  them  overseers. 

Into  this  company  of  Pastors,  my  brother-elect,  it  is  now 
my  privilege  to  welcome  you.       We  have  diligently  inquired 


176  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

concerning  you;  and  however  severe  may  be  the  ordeal,  let 
none  complain  that  the  Church  should  be  jealous  in  behalf  of 
her  Episcopate,  and  should  carefully  scrutinize  the  qualifica- 
tions of  such  as  are  presented  to  her  for  so  holy  a  trust. 

I  am  bold  to  say  to  you  that  the  results  of  this  inquiry 
have  been  satisfactory.  God  has  not  left  you  destitute  of  His 
manifold  gifts,  nor  yet  of  grace  to  use  them  for  His  honor  and 
glory  in  your  ministry  heretofore.  Well  may  we,  in  view 
of  the  past,  anticipate  for  you  an  Episcopate  of  solid  merit 
and  of  steadily  increasing  usefulness. 

You  go  forth  to  a  new  country,  an  untried  office,  among 
a  stranger  flock.  You  are  to  diffuse  abroad  that  Gospel 
which  teaches  as  its  sublimest  truth  that  there  is  sympathy  in 
heaven  for  man.  Let  that  same  word  be  your  comfort  in 
every  trouble !  Henceforth  there  is  to  be  another  bond  of 
sympathy  between  you  and  your  blessed  Lord.  He  himself 
was  Bishop  upon  earth ;  He  knows  the  trial  and  the  burden 
of  the  office.  In  becoming  a  Bishop,  you  pass  in  some  things 
beyond  the  limits  of  ordinary  sympathies,  but  you  go  up  into 
a  nearer  and  closer  intimacy  and  communion  with  Him 
who  gathered  first  the  flock  and  guided  them  a  little  way 
with  His  own  hand  before  He  resigned  them  to  our  care. 
It  is  not  presumptuous  to  affirm  that  He  has  a  special  tender- 
ness for  His  faithful  copartners  in  this  work,  and  that  when 
we  reach  the  farther  shore  He  will  stand  ready  to  greet  us 
with  peculiar  rewards  of  grace. 

Lean  then  upon  the  Chief  Shepherd,  and  take  His  Epis- 
copate in  its  great  features  as  the  pattern  of  your  own.  No 
human  art  can  make  a  good  and  efficient  Bishop.  That  man 
will  most  excel  who,  with  childlike  simplicity,  copies  the  one 
perfect  exemplar. 

Oh,  my  Brother !  take  good  heed  to  the  three  things 
which  stand  forth  so  plainly  in  the  chief  ministry  of  the 
Son  of  God.  Cherish  your  clergy.  Be  the  chief  mission- 
ary within  your  Diocese.  Show  yourself  a  pattern  of  good 
works,  and  you  will  not  live  in  vain.  The'  erring  shall  be 
brought  into  the  fold  of  Christ.  Brethren  shall  dwell 
together  in  unity.       Your  Diocese  shall  increase  in  strength 


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and  saintliness,  and  at  the  last  when  the  Chief  Shepherd  shall 
appear  receive  a  crown  of  glory  that  f  adeth  not  away ! 


Perhaps  the  domestic  side  of  Bishop  Lay's  life  could 
not  be  more  simply  or  more  attractively  given  than  in  the 
letters  to  one  of  his  parishioners,  which  are  here  transcribed.* 

A.  D.  18661869. 

Huntsville,  Ala.,  July  23,  1866. 
My  Dear  Mrs.  Cantrell : 

I  have  been  here  some  ten  days  with  my  little  flock 
around  me.  I  find  Mrs.  Lay  quite  well  and  the  little  girl 
has  gotten  quite  fat.  She  has  no  muscle  to  speak  of,  but 
she  is  content  to  lie  on  her  back  and  kick  for  an  hour  at  a 
time.  This  change  from  complete  emaciation,  and  within 
about  three  weeks,  we  feel  to  be  a  great  blessing.  Henry 
comes  back  to  us  in  good  health,  and  has,  I  hope,  done  well 
at  school.  I  am  considering  what  to  do  with  him  next  year. 
Oh  that  we  could  have  good  schools  in  Arkansas ! 

The  unexpected  summons  to  Helena  has  deranged  my 
plans  for  the  summer.  I  became  sick  and  found  it  would 
not  do  to  travel  on  steamboat  in  July.  I  hardly  know  what 
my  arrangements  will  be,  only,  if  cholera  does  not  prevent,  I 
shall  have  to  go  north  before  I  return  to  Arkansas.  I  long 
for  the  time  when  I  shall  have  a  home  and  be  able  to  concen- 
trate my  efforts.  Our  parish  is  in  good  hands  and  I  hope 
Mr.  Robertf  will  find  much  encouragement  in  his  labors.  I 
am  anxious  to  make  it  a  model  parish  in  spirituality  and  in 
missionary  zeal.  The  Church  music  here  is  at  present 
mainly  performed  by  the  children  and  is  very  sweet.  They 
chant  the  Psalter  very  well.  I  will  bring  back  all  the  good 
ideas  I  can  pick  up.       I  have  always  a  very  affectionate  recol- 


*Bishop  Lay's  first  parish  was  in  Princess  Anne  County  Virginia,  the  birth-place 
of  the  Annalist. 

tAccented  on  the  last  syllable. 


178  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

lection  of  your  hospitable  home.  Remember  me  most  kindly 
to  the  Doctor,  to  Miss  Mary,*  and  all  the  girls,  especially 
kiss  the  baby  for  me. 

We  have  lately  heard  of  the  death  of  two  saints  very 
dear  to  us.  The  first  was  Mrs.  Shipp,  of  Lincolnton,  X.  C, 
one  of  the  loveliest  women  I  ever  knew.  We  were  perfect 
strangers  to  her;  but  she  could  not  have  been  kinder  if  Mrs. 
Lay  had  been  her  own  sister.  The  other  is  Mrs.  Lay's  great 
aunt,  Mrs.  W^alker,  of  Petersburg,  with  whom  she  lived  for 
some  nine  years  while  at  school.  She  was  a  woman  of  re- 
markable judgment  and  strong  will.  A  widow  of  55  years, 
she  gave  all  her  thoughts  and  efforts  to  the  Church.  She 
kept  open  house  for  the  clergy  and  was  known  everywhere  as 
Good  Aunt  Walker.  The  day  of  judgment  alone  will  reveal 
how  much  good  that  quiet,  sickly  woman  did  in  this  wicked 
world.  She  was  so  glad  to  be  released  from  sickness  and 
pain.  It  is  a  comfort  to  know  that  there  are  such  good 
people  passing  away  into  rest.  May  many  such  grow  up  in 
Arkansas ! 

Most  truly  your  friend, 

HENRY  C.  LAY. 

Mrs.  Cantrell,  Little  Rock. 

There  is  another  extract  from  a  letter  written  three 
years  later,  after  he  had  arrived  at  his  new  Diocese,  dated 
Easton,  Md.,  April  28,  1869. 

My  Dear  Mrs.  Cantrell : 

Our  journey  was  a  very  fatiguing  one,  the  more  so, 
for  the  many  friends  and  acquaintances  who  occupied  us  at 
our  halting  places.  We  were  taken  possession  of  immedi- 
ately on  our  arrival  by  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Golsborough,  and  car- 
ried to  a  hospitable  home,  where  we  shall  spend  some  weeks. 

They  have  thrown  themselves  very  heartily  into  our 
affairs,  and  will  relieve  us  of  much  care  and  trouble  in  set- 
tling ourselves.       The  town  of  Easton  is  about  a  mile  from 


*Miss  Mary  E.  Harrell. 


THE    ANNALS    Oi?'    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  179 

the  water.  The  steamboat  runs  in  about  rive  hours  from 
Baltimore  to  Easton  Point,  the  landing  for  the  town.  Just 
across  a  creek  from  Easton  Point  is  a  large  farm  of  Dr. 
Adkins.  He  has  just  removed  into  town  and  rents  us  his 
farm  home,  with  the  garden,  grounds  and  stables.  The 
view  is  beautiful,  looking  out  upon  the  salt  water.  Plenty 
of  green  grass  and  shady  trees.  The  house  is  handsome, 
with  six  large  rooms  and  a  tower  of  three  stories,  each  story 
giving  a  nicely  finished  room  16  x  16.  There  are  porches 
and  blinds  enough  to  make  it  cool  in  summer.  We  expect 
to  warm  the  main  part  of  the  house,  five  rooms  and  passages, 
with  two  stoves,  burning  hard  coal.  They  have  here  what 
they  call  "'self-feeders."  The  fire  burns  only  at  the  bottom 
and  the  coal  settles  down  as  it  is  consumed,  so  that  the  stove 
burns  straight  ahead  for  twenty-four  hours. 

We  have  an  icehouse  besides,  and  buy  milk  from  a 
dairy  on  the  farm.  My  little  boys  are  amusing  themselves 
to-day  cutting  asparagus,  which  grows  wild  along  the  water's 
edge. 

So  we  shall  be  comfortable,  you  see.  We  shall  have 
troubles  and  trials  I  doubt  not.  I  see  enough  to  know  that 
it  will  require  energy  and  prudence  to  develop  the  Diocese. 
But  we  trust  to  be  guided  aright.  With  much  love  to  the 
Doctor,  the  girls,  and  the  baby,  and  all  friends, 
Yours  affectionately, 

HEKRY  C.  LAY. 

A.  D.  1 859-1 866.  About  the  time  Dr.  J.  T.  Wheat  was 
installed  as  Rector  of  Christ  Church,  Little  Rock,  or  not  long 
after,  Rev.  Henry  C.  Lay,  of  "The  Church  of  the  Nativity," 
in  Huntsville,  Ala.,  was  consecrated  Missionary  Bishop  of  the 
Southwest,  which  included  Arkansas.  He  made  a  visitation 
in  the  spring  of  1859,  but  having  chosen  Fort  Smith  as  a  place 
of  residence,  he  did  not  remove  his  family  to  Little  Rock 
until  1866.  Dr.  Wheat  joined  the  Confederate  army  as 
chaplain  in  1863.      After  his  resignation,  Bishop  Lay  was 


180  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

elected  Rector  of  Christ  Church,  and  for  a  time  performed 
the  duties  of  both  offices — Bishop  and  Presbyter.  He  made 
his  lodging  in  the  Vestry  room  of  the  Church  and  took  his 
meals  at  the  homes  of  his  parishioners,  successively.  In  this 
way  his  flock  came  to  know  him  intimately  and  to  love  him. 
Dignity,  combined  with  gentleness,  gave  to  his  manner  an 
unusual  charm  which  was  heightened  by  a  voice  of  singular 
sweetness.  This,  with  the  friendly  humor  and  sympathy 
that  marked  his  intercourse  with  children,  caused  them  to 
become  his  loyal  subjects.  When  he,  with  his  family,  arrived 
from  Alabama  after  peace  had  been  established,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Gilbert  Knapp  received  them  at  their  hospitable  home  on 
Seventh  street  and  Rector  avenue.  Afterwards  they  began 
housekeeping  in  the  cottage  on  southeast  corner  of  Sixth  and 
Sherman  streets.  The  eldest  son,  Henry,  had  been  left  behind 
at  school,  and  two  sturdy  boys,  George  and  Bierne,  with  baby 
Bettie,  formed  the  household.  When  the  Bishop  returned 
from  the  Pan-Anglican  Conference  of  Bishops  at  London, 
which  was  held  at  Lambeth  Palace,  he  occasionally  indulged 
in  a  jocose  reference  to  the  "Bishop's  Palace,"  at  Little  Rock. 
He  afterwards  bought  the  jjroperty  now  owned  by  Colonel 
James  Mitchell,  on  Fifteenth  and  Spring.  To  the  original 
building  he  added,  on  the  southwest  corner,  a  commodious 
study.  This  was  well  equipped  with  books  and  I  doubt 
whether  he  would  have  exchanged  with  the  Archbishop  of 
Canterbury,  when  once  established.  On  one  occasion  the 
writer  was  entertained  in  this  study.  After  discussing  the 
new  books  and  magazines,  he  said :  "Here  is  a  charming 
poem,  that  I  will  read  to  you,  if  I  may."  Of  course  there 
was  but  one  reply.  With  tones  that  made  music  to  the  words, 
he  read — 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  181 


CHRIST  AND  THE  LITTLE  ONES. 

"The  Master  has  come  over  Jordan," 

Said  Hannah,  the  mother,  one  day; 
He  is  healing  the  people  who  throng  Him, 
With  a  touch  of  his  finger,  they  say. 

"And  now  I  shall  carry  the  children, 

Little  Rachel,  and  Samuel,  and  John, 
I  shall  carry  the  baby,  Esther, 

For  the  Lord  to  look  upon." 

The  father  looked  at  her  kindly, 

But  he  shook  his  head  and  smiled: 

Now  who  but  a  doting  mother 

Would  think  of  a  thing  so  wild  ? 

"If  the  children  were  tortured  by  demons, 
Or  dying  of  fever,  'twere  well ; 
Or  had  they  the  taint  of  the  leper, 
Like  many  in  Israel." 

"Nay,  do  not  hinder  me,  Nathan, 
I  feel  such  a  burden  of  care 
If  I  carry  it  to  the  Master, 

Perhaps  I  shall  leave  it  there. 

"If  he  lay  His  hand  on  the  children 

My  heart  will  be  lighter  I  know, 
For  a  blessing  forever  and  ever 

Will  follow  them  as  they  go." 

So  over  the  hills  of  Judah, 

Along  by  the  vine  rows  green, 

With  Esther  asleep  on  her  bosom 

And  Rachel,  her  brothers  between. 

'Mid  the  people  who  hung  on  His  teaching 
Or  waited  His  touch  and  His  word, — 
Through  the  row  of  proud  Pharisees  listening, 
She  pressed  to  the  feet  of  the  Lord. 


182  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

''.Now  why  shouldst  thou  hinder  the  Master?" 
Said  Peter,  "with  children  like  these? 
Seest  not  how  from  morning  to  evening- 
He  teacheth  and  healeth  disease?" 

Then  Christ  said,  "Forbid  not  the  children, 
Permit  them  to  come  unto  Me !" 

And  he  took  in  His  arms  little  Esther, 
And  Rachel  he  set  on  his  knee; 

And  the  heavy  heart  of  the  mother 

Was  lifted  all  earthcare  above. 
As  he  laid  His  hand  on  the  brothers 

And  blest  them  with  tenderest  love; 

As  he  said  of  the  babes  in  His  bosom, 

"Of  such  are  the  kingdom  of  heaven," 

And  strength  for  all  duty  and  trial 

That  hour  to  her  spirit  was  given. 

— Julia  Gill. 

It  is  a  comfort  to  think  that  the  mothers  were  objects  of 
sympathy,  to  one  whose  beautiful  utterances  and  persuasive 
eloquence  had  moved  the  reverend  assembly  of  Bishops ! 
Surely  a  shepherd  after  the  pattern  of  his  Master !  As  his 
Episcopal  duties  crowded  in  upon  him,  Bishop  Lay  called  to 
his  assistance,  with  the  consent  of  the  congregation,  the  Rev. 
P.  G.  Robert,  of  Virginia,  late  chaplain  in  the  Southern 
army,  who,  in  the  course  of  a  year,  was  elected  Rector  of 
Christ  Church,  the  Bishop  resigning  all  duty  except  that  of 
his  Episcopate.  The  Bishop  was  not  robust  in  physique, 
and  as  he  would  set  out  in  his  ambulance  to  scale  the  moun- 
tains of  Arkansas,  his  physician,  Dr.  Cantrell,  would  add 
many  little  comforts,  that  he  foresaw  would  be  needed  to 
strengthen  him  on  the  route.  He  was  better  adapted  to  wield 
a  pen  whose  influence  would  be  felt  through  the  confines  of 
the  Anglican  Church  than  to  carry  the  Gospel  in  person  as  a 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  183 

missionary.  So  that  he  was  translated  to  the  Diocese  of 
Easton  in  1869,  and  Christ  Church  lost  her  most  beautiful 
lecturer  and  sermonizer.  One  Good  Friday  sermon,  "Alone ; 
Yet  I  am  jSTot  Alone,  Because  the  Father  is  With  Me,"  and 
another  Easter  sermon,  "Who  Shall  Roll  us  Away  the  Stone 
from  the  Door  of  the  Sepulchre  ?"  will  never  be  forgotten 
here. 

After  Little  Rock  was  occupied  by  the  Federal  army  the 
Church  was  appropriated  for  a  hospital  for  the  sick  soldiers. 
Bishop  Lay  was  the  guest  of  Judge  Ringo  at  that  time  and 
inaugurated  home  services,  which  were  conducted  by  lay 
readers  at  private  houses,  principally  at  the  homes  of  Judge 
Ringo  and  Mrs.  Judge  Watkins,  the  Sunday  School  organ 
having  been  moved  from  house  to  house  to  lead  the  singing. 
When  the  Church  was  cleared  of  the  sick,  the  Rev.  E.  Steele 
Peek,  chaplain  of  General  Steele's  division,  held  the  usual 
Sunday  services  there.  A  few  of  the  Sunday  School  teachers 
returned  to  their  charge.  Mr.  Peek  inquired  for  the  Sun- 
day School  organ.  Learning  that  it  was  at  the  house  of 
Judge  Watkins,  he  requested  one  of  the  teachers  to  ask  that 
it  be  returned  to  the  Church.  At  that  time  such  a  request 
was  felt  to  equal  a  command.  Still  Mrs.  Watkins  hesitated 
to  comply,  without  advice  from  the  Vestrymen  of  the  Church. 
Another  request  was  forwarded  to  her  from  Mr.  Peek  and  the 
organ  was  delivered  up  and  placed  at  the  head  of  the  aisle, 
near  the  chancel  in  the  Church.  For  several  Sundays  the 
services  went  on  peacefully.  Mr.  Peek  was  an  upright, 
humane,  Christian  minister,  bent  on  doing  his  duty.  None 
felt  the  premonition  of  the  explosion  which  soon  followed. 
One  Sunday  morning  at  Sunday  School,  Mr.  Peek  was 
observed  to  go  from  class  to  class  interviewing  each  teacher. 
At  length  he  announced  in  deprecating  tones,  to  the  consterna- 


184  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

tion  of  all,  that  the  organ  had  been  taken  from  the  Church! 
For  some  time  subsequently  a  vain  search  was  made  for  the 
missing  instrument.  After  many  months  it  was  traced  to  a 
Church  in  one  of  the  Northwestern  States,  where  it  had  been 
sent  by  the  Federal  soldiers,  probablv  those  who  had  been 
sheltered  there  in  sickness,  as  confiscated  property !  It  was 
never  returned,  to  Mr,  Peek's  undying  chagrin.  He  did 
everything  in  his  power  to  show  his  sympathy  to  a  conquered 
foe,  and  won  the  love  and  gratitude  of  the  community  by  his 
daily  ministrations  until  death  to  the  heroic,  martyr,  David 
O.  Dodd,  who  was  executed  as  a  spy,  January  8,  1864. 

REV.  P.  G.  ROBERT.* 

Rev.  P.  G.  Robert  was  first  called  from  Virginia  as  as- 
sistant to  Bishop  Lay  in  the  duties  of  Rector,  but  soon  suc- 
ceeded to  the  full  charge  as  Rector.  From  The  Church  News, 
the  official  paper  of  the  Diocese  of  Missouri,  Rt.  Rev.  D.  S. 
Tuttle,  D.  D.,  Bishop,  volume  26,  St.  Louis,  June  15,  1895, 
the  following  corrected  abstract  of  his  life  has  been  taken : 

A.  D.  1827.  "Mr.  Robert  was  born  in  Richmond,  Va., 
December  16,  1827.  He  is  the  son  of  John  Gibson  Robert,  of 
a  Picard  family,  which  traces  back  to  the  twelfth  century ; 
and  of  Amanda  P.  McRae,  a  lineal  descendant  of  the  Lord  of 
the  Isles.  He  received  his  preparatory  education  in  the 
Richmond  Academy,  in  the  private  school  of  Rev.  Geo.  A. 
Smith,  at  Clarens,  near  Alexandria.  It  was  said  of  Mr. 
Smith  that  he  "was  as  near  to  saintship  as  men  ever  get  on 
this  earth."  Mr.  Robert  informs  our  interviewer  that  since 
then  he  has  "pulled  through  by  main  force  and  stupidity." 
He  was  for  a  time  clerk  in  Colonel  Walter  D.  Blair's  grocery 
in  Richmond,  and  subsequently  in  the  counting  room  of  John 
D.  Mayben,  a  large  dealer  in  Virginia  and  Kentucky  tobacco. 


*  Accented  on  the  second  syllable. 


REV.  P.  G.  ROBERT. 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  185 

In  1846  his  attention  was  turned  toward  the  ministry,  and  he 
went  to  Clarens  to  brush  up  his  Latin  and  Greek,  and  entered 
the  Theological  Seminary,  Alexandria,  the  next  year.  He 
passed  his  examinations  under  such  men  as  Drs.  Sparrow, 
May,  and  Packard;  which  examinations,  Mr.  Robert  insists 
to  doubting  ears  were  far  more  rigid  and  severe  than  those 
he  inflicts  upon  the  candidates  who  fall  into  his  hands  now 
as  examining  chaplain ;  and  was  ordained  to  the  Diaconate  by 
Bishop  Meade,  July  12,  1850,  at  Christ  Church,  Alexandria. 
He  was  advanced  to  the  Priesthood  by  Bishop  Johns,  Decem- 
ber 18,  1851,  at  Christ  Church,  Bruton  Parish,  Williams- 
burgh,  Rev.  Chas.  Minnegerode  and  Rev.  Edmund  Withers, 
examiners.  His  first  duty  was  assistant  to  the  Rector  of  St. 
James  Church,  Richmond,  then  he  was  ordered  by  Bishop 
Meade  to  Meherrin  Parish,  Greensville  County,  and  took 
charge  as  Rector-elect,  October  6,  1850,  where  he  remained 
for  eight  years.  He  married  while  there  Elizabeth  Scott, 
October  5,  1854.  From  1858  to  1861  he  was  Rector  of 
Christ  Church,  Smithfield,  Isle  of  Wight  County,  and  St. 
Andrew's,  Southwark  Parish,  Surrey  County,  a  Parish  of 
which  his  great  grandfather,  Rev.  Christopher  McRae,  was 
Rector  in  Colonial  times.  On  the  breaking  out  of  the  Civil 
War,  Mr.  Robert  was  commissioned  chaplain  in  the  Confed- 
erate States  army,  and  served  in  the_  Second  Louisiana, 
Thirty-fourth  Virginia  Regiments,  Second  Corps,  A.  N".  V., 
until  he  was  surrendered  at  Appomattox  Courthouse,  April  9, 
1865.  He  was  in  nine  general  engagements,  many  skirm- 
ishes, and  several  affairs ;  and  tells  his  friends  that  he  is  en- 
titled to  write  "P.  P."  after  his  name,  which  means  Paroled 
Prisoner,  or  Parish  Priest,  whichever  you  like.  After  the 
war,  he  "taught  school  and  ploughed"  for  a  year,  when  Bishop 
Lay  invited  him  to  Little  Rock,  Ark.  He  was  assistant  for 
one  year  and  Rector  for  two  years  of  Christ  Church,  Little 
Rock,  and  in  1869  came  to  St.  Louis,  and  began  to  build  up 
the  Parish  of  the  Holy  Communion,  preaching  his  first  ser- 
mon as  Rector  July  6  of  that  year.  Mr.  Robert  has  made 
his  impress  upon  the  Church  life  of  St.  Louis,  and  always 
held  important  trusts  in  the  counsels  of  the  Church,  and  has 


186  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

also  kept  an  interest,  and  been  an  influence  in  the  welfare  of 
society  and  the  city,  outside  of  his  immediate  work." 


Rev.  Mr.  Robert  is  a  rare  type  of  a  Christian  Apostle. 
He  presents  a  combination  of  virtues — courage,  steadfastness, 
unswerving  faith,  unquestioning  obedience,  together  with  a 
great  underlying  tenderness.  He  is  a  man  among  men,  even 
though  consecrated  to  the  life  of  isolation,  usually  assigned  to 
ministers  of  the  Gospel ;  a  man  who  holds  the  key  to  man's 
nature  and  knows  how  to  adapt  it ;  who,  while  honoring  the 
female  sex  as  a  great  throng  of  handmaidens  of  the  Lord  by 
election,  seeks  to  reach  and  strengthen  those  of  his  own  as 
being  in  more  deadly  danger  from  the  assaults  of  the  enemy ; 
— who  holds  a  visible,  though  perhaps  unspoken,  scorn  for  a 
willful  villian,  but  a  heart  full  of  great  compassion  for  a 
repentant  prodigal — a  man,  who,  being  the  type  of  a  soldier- 
apostle,  has  left  an  impression,  large,  chivalrous  and  indelible 
on  all  the  people  of  Little  Rock,  irrespective  of  sect,  and  an 
influence  which  will  be  undying. 

Between  Bishop  Lay  and  his  assistant,  afterwards  his 
successor  as  Parish  Rector,  there  was  an  abiding  friendship, 
sealed  perhaps  by  their  experiences  as  prisoners  of  war.  In 
the  wide  divergence  of  paths  which  separated  them  after  four 
years  of  comradeship  and  apostolic  companionship,  this  affec- 
tion never  failed.  Each  pressed  on  to  the  same  goal,  the  one 
as  the  faithful  Shepherd  of  the  sheep,  during  twenty-six  years 
of  leadership,  reaching  it  first;  the  other  scouring  the  outposts 
for  wandering  sinners,  viewing  the  end  from  a  calvary  of 
suffering,  but  still  sounding  the  cheerful  call  of  invitation, 
rather  than  warning,  "Come  and  see!'"' 

After  Mr.  Robert  had  completed  that  portion  of  the 
Church  of  the  Holy  Communion  designed  for  the  chapel,  in 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  187 

St.  Louis,  to  which  place  he  had  been  called  from  Little  Rock, 
he  made  a  journey  to  the  Holy  Land  and  shared  the  pleasures 
of  the  Oriental  visit  with  his  parishioners  in  weekly  letters  to 
his  parish  paper.  These  were  graphic  and  interesting  and 
much  enjoyed.  Mr.  Robert  was  a  power  in  the  Sunday 
School.  The  festivals  at  Easter  were  conducted  with  enthusi- 
asm. He  also  prepared  for  the  Sunday  School  of  the  Holy 
Communion  "Questions  on  the  Harmony  of  the  Gospels,  the 
Catechism  and  the  Theme  of  Each  Sunday."  He  is  now  an 
invalid  with  some  heart  trouble,  but  his  trustful,  loving  words 
still  warm  the  hearts  and  point  the  hopes  of  his  legions  of 
friends.  A  scheme  for  an  Orphanage  in  Little  Rock  origin- 
ated with  him.  The  sum  of  $340  or  $350  had  been  loaned 
to  the  Vestry  in  the  first  year  of  Rev.  P.  G.  Robert's  Rector- 
ship, which  "was  a  sum  collected  by  him  towards  starting  an 
orphanage,"  says  a  correspondent.  "I  remember  the  circum- 
stance well,"  she  continues,  "because  Mr.  Robert  told  me  at 
the  time  that  everything  was  contributed,  even  brooms  for  the 
house.  Then  he  looked  for  the  orphans  and  could  find  none 
to  put  in  it !  Therefore  the  money  was  loaned  to  the  Vestry — 
a  long  loan,  for  when  I  left  Little  Rock,  I  suppose  not  less 
than  ten  years  afterward,  no  account  of  it  had  been  given." 
In  reference  to  this  orphanage  scheme,  Mr.  Robert  writes : 

"The  loan  to  the  Vestry  and  the  failure  to  find  orphans 
is  correct.  My  Lutheran  communicants  used  to  adopt  every 
orphan  child  they  could  find,  according  to  their  loving  custom. 
God  bless  them !" 

But  the  scheme  was  revived  when  orphans  became  more 
plentiful,  and  at  this  date,  October,  1808,  there  is  an  Orphans' 
Home  established  on  Fifth  and  Commerce  streets,  under  the 
guardianship  of  Mrs.  James  Mitchell,  president ;  Mrs.  J.  W. 
Beidelman,  vice  president;   Mrs.   John   Fletcher,   secretary; 


188  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

Mrs.  John  Levering  Matthews,  assistant  secretary,  and  Mrs. 
Helen  Norton,  treasurer.  There  are  twenty-eight  inmates. 
Of  these  five  are  babies. 

The  children  of  Rev.  P.  G.  and  Elizabeth  Scott  Robert 
are: 

1.  John  Gibson,  who  married  Miss  Mary  Thweatt  Wil- 
son, of  Richmond,  Va.  They  have  one  child,  John  Gibson 
Robert,  Jr. 

i2.     Edward  Scott,  unmarried.      Born  in  Virginia. 

3.  Dent  Hayes,  unmarried.     Born  in  Virginia. 

4.  Douglas  Wilhens.  Born  in  Little  Rock.  Married 
Eliza  Clendenin. 

5.  Lee  Edward  Robert  (Robert  E.  Lee  reversed),  un- 
married.    Born  in  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

Two  daughters  have  "gone  before,"  Amanda  and  Bessie. 

The  members  of  the  Vestry  during  the  incumbency  of 
Rev.  P.  G.  Robert  were  L.  E.  Barber,  Senior  Warden ;  John 
Wassell,  Junior  Warden;  Win.  B.  Wait,  Treasurer;  S.  L. 
Griffith,  Gwynn  Barber,  W.  A.  Cantrell,  Daniel  Ringo,  U.  M. 
Rose,  T.  J.  Churchill,  B.  C.  Trapnall,  Gordon  K  Peay. 

The  organist  was  Dr.  J.  W.  Beidelman.  The  choir  was 
composed  of  Mrs.  Mary  Ellen  Ives,  nee  Tucker,  afterwards 
Mrs.  Strong,  Miss  Laura  Tucker,  afterwards  Mrs.  Hardy, 
Miss  Annie  Reardon,  afterwards  Mrs.  P.  Raleigh,  Miss 
Emma  Scott,  afterwards  .Mrs.  James  Lawson,  Miss  Johnanna 
Scott,  afterwards  Mrs.  Clay  Ro  Bards,  Miss  Johanna  Krause, 
afterwards  Mrs.  Peter  Hotze,  Miss  Alice  Compton,  afterwards 
Mrs.  George  Weaver,  General  Albert  Bishop,  Major  Smith, 
IT.  S.  A.,  Lieutenant  Post,  IT.  S.  A.,  Lieutenant  Gregory, 
U.  S.  A..  T.  W.  Bankes. 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  189 

FORMER  CHRIST  CHURCH  RECTOR. 
[Arkansas  Democrat,  December  15,  1898.] 

Rev.  P.  G.  Robert,  who  will  be  remembered  by  old  citi- 
zens as  Rector  of  Christ  Church  in  the  sixties,  has  tendered 
his  resignation  as  Rector  of  the  Episcopal  Church  of  the  Holy 
Communion,  St.  Louis,  after  nearly  thirty  years'  continuous 
service.  Dr.  Robert's  determination  to  resign  was  reached 
after  much  consideration  of  the  subject,  and  at  the  earnest 
solicitation  of  his  physician.  The  reverend  gentleman  is  suf- 
fering from  an  affection  of  the  heart,  which  causes  serious 
illness  whenever  he  exerts  himself  too  vigorously. 

Dr.  Robert  was  the  founder  of  the  Church  from  which 
he  proposes  to  resign.  He  has  been  its  only  Rector.  He 
has  also  been  for  many  years  the  examining  chaplain  of  the 
Diocese.  His  resignation  as  Rector  carries  with  it  the  resig- 
nation from  this  office. 

From  the  Hot  Springs  (Ark.)  Commercial,  of  date 
December  10,  1898,  we  transfer  the  following  notice  of  the 
wife  of  the  former  Rector  of  Christ  Church : 

SOMETHING    ABOUT   A   DISTINGUISHED    LADY 
DELEGATE 

TO   THE    NATIONAL    UNITED   DAUGHTERS   OF   TilE   CONFEDERACY 
CHAPTER,   WHICH  CONVENED  HERE  LAST  WEEK. 

Mrs.  P.  G.  Robert,  a  delegate  representing  the  Daugh- 
ters of  the  Confederacy,  of  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  at  the  convention 
or  chapter  which  met  in  this  city  on  the  9th  ult.,  was  a  Miss 
Bettie  Scott,  of  Henrico  County,  Va.  ( in  which  is  the  city  of 
Richmond),  having  spent  portions  of  her  early  life  in  Louis- 
iana at  her  father's  sugar  plantation.  She  is  a  niece  of  the 
distinguished  officer  who  commanded  the  armies  of  the  United 
States  in  the  war  with  Mexico,  and  still  the  ranking  officer  at 
the  beginning  of  the  Civil  War,  Major-Genera]  Winfield  Scott. 


190  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

Miss  Scott  married  in  Richmond  an  Episcopal  minister, 
who  served  during  the  war  as  chaplain  in  Stonewall  Jackson's 
"foot  cavalry;"  carried  a  rifle,  and  sometimes  shot  it,  as  he 
says,  in  self-defense.  He  went  on  Jackson's  long  marches 
as  often  on  foot  as  mounted ;  and  was  near  him  when  he  met 
his  calamitous  death — most  calamitous  for  the  cause  of  the 
South  as  it  proved ;  for  had  Jackson  been  with  Lee,  who  called 
him  his  "right  arm,"  the  latter  had  not  lost  the  battle  of 
Gettysburg — and  with  it  the  Southern  cause,  as  Great  Britain 
was  ready  to  "intervene"  if  Lee  had  won  that  battle. 

Mrs.  Robert,  though  the  mother  of  five  grown  sons,  two 
of  whom  are  lawyers,  one  an  editor,  and  one  a  doctor,  in  St. 
Louis,  is  a  comely  lady,  who  does  not  appear  to  have  passed 
the  vigor  of  her  prime ;  for,  though  somewhat  fleshy,  her 
luxuriant  tresses  do  not  indicate  the  rapid  advance  of  age. 
She  is  jovial  and  kind,  but  of  marked  decision  of  character, 
and  possessed  of  the  power  of  exercising  an  influence  over 
others.  Her  husband  is  Rector  of  the  Church  of  the  Holy 
Communion  in  St.  Louis,  able,  zealous  and  greatly  esteemed. 
She  has  been  so  long  an  Episcopal  Rector's  wife  and  made  it 
a  duty  to  her  Church  and  her  husband  to  learn  human  nature, 
that  she  is  tactful  and  confident  in  her  intercourse  with  ladies 
in  all  social  relations.  She  made  her  impress  upon  the  con- 
vention in  many  ways,  as  it  was  to  that  end  she  was  urged  by 
her  associates  in  St.  Louis  to  attend  the  convention.  Not 
given  to  any  disposition  to  shine  in  "oratory,"  or  to  any 
fondness  for  display  of  whatever  character,  she  was  keenly 
alive  to  every  detail  of  the  proceedings,  and  promptly  shared 
in  debate  when  she  deemed  it  appropriate. 

During  one  of  the  sittings  a  point  of  order  was  endeav- 
ored to  be  settled  upon  the  authority  of  a  ruling  of  Speaker 
Reed,  of  the  United  States  House  of  Representatives.  Mrs. 
Robert  was  quickly  on  her  feet  and  asked : 

"Is  his,  the  speaker's,  course  to  be  reasonably  thought 
to  furnish  so  high  a  standard  of  parliamentary  law  ?  Is  he 
not  rather  distinguished  as  a  violator  of  parliamentary  rules ; 
a  parliamentary  despot,  whom  one  of  the  members  of  Con- 
gress of  this  State  has  called  a  counterfeit  of  the  'Czar  ?'    Let 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  191 

us  not  conduct  our  proceedings  upon  the  practices  of  Thomas 
Bracket  Reed,  who  is  chiefly  distinguished,  like  another  'ton 
of  a  man,'  for  'wrenching'  the  true  cause  the  false  way.'  "  She 
then  explained  her  idea  of  the  unfairness  of  enforcing  the  rule 
proposed — in  her  genial  and  matronly  way.  Czar  Reed's 
precedent  Avas  ignored. 

Mrs.  Robert  attended  through  the  entire  session,  was 
present  at  all  excursions  and  festivities.  There  was  none 
who  became  acquainted  with  her  who  did  not  instantly 
admire  her  and  even  love  her.  She  was  but  one  of  this  gather- 
ing of  many  splendid  women  who  met  to  honor  the  memory 
of  the  Southern  soldier. 


REV.  HENRY  HOBART  MORRELL. 

A.  D.  1827-1889.  Ret\  Henry  Hobart  Morrell  suc- 
ceeded the  Rev.  P.  G.  Robert  as  Rector  of  Christ  Church.  He 
was  born  May  17,  1827 ;  ordained  Priest  by  Bishop  Mcll- 
vaine  in  Trinity  Church,  Columbus,  Ohio,  March  14,  1856, 
and  married  October  21  of  the  same  year  to  Mary  Elizabeth 
Badger,  and  was  in  charge  of  the  Church  at  Dayton,  Ohio, 
at  the  time  he  was  ordained  Priest.  In  1869  he  accepted  a 
call  to  Christ  Church,  where  his  work  was  especially  good 
among  the  poor  and  needy,  his  legacy  to  his  successor  having 
been  a  huge  hamper  basketful  of  clothing  that  he  had  col- 
lected from  the  congregation  for  distribution  among  convales- 
cent small-pox  patients.  He  resigned  the  position  during  the 
fall  of  1870.  Six  years  after  the  death  of  his  wife,  in  1875, 
he  married  a  widow,  Mrs.  Annie  Ramage  Smith,  of  Knox- 
ville,  Tenn.,  where  he  had  assumed  charge  of  St.  John's 
Church  from  April,  1881,  to  February,  1886.  Following 
this  he  was  engaged  in  missionary  work  in  Georgia  and 
Florida  and  West  Virginia.  He  died  at  Wheeling,  W.  Va., 
January  2,  1889.      There  were  six  children: 


192  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

Emma  J.,  unmarried. 

Mary  J .,  married  Charles  Henry  Waring,  of  Knoxville, 
Tennessee. 

Leonard  Mcllvaine,  who  died  June  17,  1877,  aged  15 
years. 

Charles  K.,  unmarried.   - 

Norman  Blake,  unmarried. 

John  Hampton,  unmarried. 

The  consecration  of  Henry  Niles  Pierce  to  the  Bishopric 
occurred  at  this  time,  who  succeeded  Mr.  Morrell  for  a  limited 
time  as  Rector  of  Christ  Church  as  well  as  Bishop  of  the 
jurisdiction  of  Arkansas  and  Indian  Territory. 

From  The  Little  Rock  Churchman  February,  1888,  the 
following  reference  to  this  Rector  is  taken : 

The  Rev.  Mr.  Degen's  paper,  "The  Diocese  of  Arkan- 
sas," has  reappeared,  after  a  suspension  of  six  months.  The 
contents  evince  conscientious  industry. 

The  leading  article  is  a  historical  sketch  of  Christ 
Church,  Little  Rock,  illustrated  by  a  beautiful  engraving  of 
the  edifice.  The  materials  at  the  command  of  the  writer 
were  evidently  meager,  e.  g.,  no  mention  is  made  of  the  Rec- 
torship of  the  Rev.  Dr.  Morrell  (1869-70),  whose  ministry 
amidst  great  difficulties  was  most  faithful. 

The  history  of  this  parish  remains  to  be  written. 


RT.  REV.  HENRY  NILES  PIERCE,  D.  D.,  LL.  D. 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  193 


RT.  REV.  HENRY  NILES  PIERCE,  1).  D.,  LL.  D. 

A.  D.  1 820-1 869.  lit.  Per.  Henry  Niles  Pierce,  D.  D. 
LL.  D.,  fourth  Missionary  Bishop  of  Arkansas  and  Indian 
Territory,  was  born  in  Pawtucket,  R.  I.,  on  the  19th  day  of 
October,  1820.  He  was  the  son  of  Benjamin  Bentley 
Pierce,  a  Deacon  in  the  Baptist  Church  at  Pawtucket,  R.  I., 
who  was  born  in  East  Greenwich,  R.  L,  in  1786,  and  died  in 
1839.  His  mother  was  Susan  Walker,  born  in  Pawtucket, 
R.  I.,  March  21,  1784,  and  died  July  30,  1869.  The  history 
of  the  Walker  family,  of  the  old  Plymouth  colony,  fills  a 
volume  of  450  pages.  His  grandfather  was  Moses  Pierce,  a 
ship  captain,  who  died  at  sea  about  the  year  1791,  when  his 
son,  Benjamin  Bentley  Pierce,  was  only  5  years  old.  He  was 
the  great  great  grandson  of  John  Pierce  of  East  Greenwich, 
R.  I.,  who  had  removed  from  Newport. 

A.  D.  1842-1854.  The  parents  of  Rt.  Rev.  Henry  N. 
Pierce  were  both  members  of  the  Baptist  Church,  and  at  the 
age  of  16  he  was  baptized  into  and  remained  a  communicant 
of  the  same  Church  for  five  years.  He  left  the  Baptist 
Church  because  he  found  to  his  satisfaction  that  that  Church 
originated  in  the  sixteenth  century,  and  had  no  descent  from 
apostolic  times.  He  became  a  communicant  of  the  Episcopal 
Church  when  about  21  years  old.  On  joining  it  he  was 
hypothetically  baptized.  He  graduated  at  Brown  University, 
Providence,  R.  I.,  in  1842;  was  ordained  Deacon  at  Christ 
Church,  Matagorda,  Texas,  April  23,  1848,  by  the  Rt,  Rev. 
George  Washington  Freeman,  D.  D. ;  ordered  Priest  in  the 
same  Church  on  January  3,  1849,  by  the  same  prelate.  From 
May,  1848,  to  May,  1852,  four  years,  he  labored  as  Mission- 
ary at  Brenham,  Washington,  Independence  and  Chapel  Hill, 


194  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

in  Washington  County,  Texas;  was  the  first  minister  of  the 
Episcopal  Church  that  ever  settled  there.  From  1852  to 
the  spring  of  1854  he  was  Rector  of  Christ  Church,  Mata- 
gorda, Texas.  At  that  place  he  married,  April  18,  1854, 
Miss  Nannie  Haywood  Sheppard,  who  was  born  near  Selma, 
Ala.,  March  6,  1830,  the  daughter  of  Abram  Sheppard,  a 
sugar  planter  and  slaveholder,  who  was  a  native  of  North 
Carolina.  Her  mother  was  Eleanor  Wallace,  of  Scotch, 
Irish,  and  Swiss  descent. 

Mrs.  Pierce  is  the  niece  of  the  wife  of  William  Henry 
Haywood,  a  leading  lawyer  at  Raleigh,  and,  for  a  time,  United 
States  Senator  from  North  Carolina.  She  was  educated  at 
St.  Mary's  School,  Raleigh,  N.  C. 

A.  D.  1854  1880.  In  June.  1854,  Rev.  H.  N.  Pierce 
took  temporary  charge  of  Trinity  Church,  New  Orleans,  but 
left  there  in  December  following.  In  the  spring  of  1855 
he  became  Rector  of  St.  Paul's  Church,  Rahway,  N.  J., 
and  continued  in  charge  until  1857.  In  October  of  1857, 
he  became  Rector  of  St.  John's  Free  Church,  in  Mobile,  Ala., 
where  his  income,  dependent  upon  the  offering  alone, 
amounted  to  $3,000  per  annum  until  1868.  He  established 
there  the  Church  Home  for  Orphans.  While  residing  there 
in  1861-62,  he  translated  Muhlbach's  Henry  VIII.  He  re- 
ceived the  degree  of  D.  D.  from  the  University  of  Alabama, 
at  Tuscaloosa,  in  1862,  and  that  of  LL.  D.  from  the  college 
of  William  and  Mary,  Williamsburg,  Va.,  in  1869.  From 
Mobile,  Dr.  Pierce  went  to  Springfield,  111.,  where  he  was 
Rector  and  Dean  of  Springfield  from  November,  1865,  to 
January  1,  1870.  On  January  25,  1870,  he  was  consecrated 
Bishop  of  Arkansas  and  Indian  Territory,  in  Christ  Church, 
Mobile,  Ala.,  by  Rt.  Rev.  William  Mercer  Green,  D.  D., 
Bishop  of  Mississippi,  assisted  by  Rt.    Rev.    Henry    John 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  195 

Whitehouse,  D.  D.,  LL.  L>.,  Oxon;  D.  C.  L.,  Bishop  of 
Illinois ;  Kt.  Rev.  Kiehard  Hooker  Wilmer,  D.  D.,  Bishop  of 
Alabama;  Rt.  Rev.  Charles  Todd  Quintard,  S.  T.  D.,  LL.  D., 
Bishop  of  Tennessee;  Rt.  Rev.  Joseph  P.  B.  Wilmer,  D.  D., 
Bishop  of  Louisiana,  and  Rt.  Rev.  John  Freeman  Young. 
S.  T.  D.,  Bishop  of  Florida. 

In  March,  1870,  he  settled  in  Little  Rock,  where  he  now 
resides  in  his  own  home,  on  Seventeenth  and  Center  streets. 
He  is  a  great  student  and  has  a  library  of  more  than  3,000 
volumes.  He  also  owns  3,000  acres  of  rich,  wild  lands  in 
Matagorda  County,  Texas.  The  children  of  Bishop  and 
Mrs.  H.  K\  Pierce  are  as  follows : 

Abraham  Wallace,  born  in  Railway,  N".  J.;  grad- 
uated at  Sewanee  University,  August,  1877 ;  studied  for 
the  ministry ;  has  been  Rector  of  Grace  Church,  Wash- 
ington, and  the  Church  of  Our  Redeemer,  Nashville ; 
Rocky  Comfort  mission,  Arkansas,  and  is  now  the  successor 
of  Rev.  D.  I.  Hobbs,  at  Trinity  Cathedral,  Little  Rock.  He 
is  unmarried. 

Henry  Walker  born  in  Railway,  X.  J. ;  educated  at 
Sewanee ;  married  May  4,  1880,  Marie  Moffat,  of  English 
birth;  died  of  rapid  consumption,  September,  at  Mobile,  Ala., 
where,  accompanied  by  his  brother,  Wallace,  he  had  gone  to 
recruit  his  waning  strength.  He  was  buried  at  Little  Rock 
from  Trinity  Cathedral,  September  4,  1886,  by  his  father, 
the  Bishop,  assisted  by  his  brother,  Rev.  A.  W.  Pierce,  of 
Mobile,  Ala. 

Elizabeth  Powell,  born  in  Mobile,  Ala. ;  educated  at  home 
by  her  father,  and  is  ranked  in  the  first  class  of  musicians  as 
an  artiste  by  the  musicians  of  New  York,  where  she  studied 
music  several  years.      She  was  married  at  Trinity  Cathedral 


196  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

to  Gerry  Austin  Lyman,  of  Boston.  Her  father  performed 
the  ceremony. 

Susan  Sheppardj  the  youngest  child,  was  born  in  Mobile, 
and  educated  under  the  parental  roof.  She  was  married  to 
Air.  William  C.  Stevens,  son  of  Bishop  Stevens,  of  Pennsyl- 
vania. Over  the  non  de  plume  of  Sheppard  Stevens,  she  has 
published  two  novels,  "I  am  the  King,"  and  "The  Sword  of 
Justice,"  both  issued  previous  to  the  death  of  her  father. 

Bishop  Pierce  has  written  sermons,  essays,  addresses, 
besides  a  volume  of  verse  entitled  "The  Agnostic,"  with  other 
poems,  issued  by  Thomas  Whittaker,  New  York,  in  1884. 

At  the  seventeenth  annual  Council  of  the  Diocese  of  Ar- 
kansas, which  was  held  at  Christ  Church,  Little  Hock,  May 
3,  1889,  Bishop  Pierce  formally  accepted  the  office  of  Dio- 
cesan, in  lieu  of  Missionary  Bishop.* 

From  The  Daily  Press  Little  Rock,  of  date  January  21, 
1895,  the  following  sketch  of  the  life  and  services  of  Bishop 
Pierce  is  reprinted.  It  was  written  on  the  occasion  of  the 
twenty-fifth  anniversary  of  his  consecration  as  Bishop : 

RT.  REV.  HENRY  NILES  PIERCE,  D.  D.,  LL.  D. 

TWENTY-FIFTH      ANNIVERSARY      OF       IIIS       CONSECRATION      AS 

BISHOP- — A    VERY    HAPPY    SILVER    JUBILEE SKETCH 

OF  THE  LIFE  AND  SERVICES  OF  A  MAN  WHOM 

ALL  ARKANSAS  LOVES THE  GROWTH  OF 

THE    EPISCOPAL    CHURCH. 

To-morrow,  January  25,  will  witness  an  event  of  more 
than  ordinary  interest,  the  twenty-fifth  anniversary  of  the 
consecration  of  the  Rt.  Rev.  Henry  Niles  Pierce,  D.  D.,  LL. 
D.,  as  Bishop  in  the  Church  of  God.  The  silver  jubilee  of 
the  pastorate  of  a  simple  flock,  is  an  event  of  great  interest  and 
of  congratulations,  but  the  silver  jubilee  of  a  Bishop,  is  a  far 

*Abstract  from  the  biography  of  Bishop  Pierce  in  "The  Encyclopedia  of  the  New 
West,"  1881. 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  197 

more  notable  event  in  that  the  Episcopate  is  one  of  the  greatest 
monumental  evidences  of  the  truth  of  Jesus  and  the  resurrec- 
tion.  Indeed,  the  Episcopate  was  raised  up  for  this  very 
purpose,  that  it  should  be  a  witness  to  the  resurrection  unto 
the  end  of  the  world.  That  one  should  be  spared  for  a  quar- 
ter of  a  century  to  participate  in  this  monumental  witnessing, 
is  an  event  that  must  command  the  attention  of  all  thoughtful 
and  earnest  men. 

The  Et,  Rev.  Henry  Niles  Pierce,  D.  D.,  LL.  D.,  the 
fourth  Bishop  of  the  Missionary  jurisdiction  of  Arkansas, 
and  the  first  Bishop  of  the  Diocese,  was  born  in  Pawtucket, 
R.  I.,  October  19,  1820.  He  was  graduated  at  Brown  Uni- 
versity in  1842.  After  passing  his  theological  examination, 
he  was  ordained  Deacon  April  23,  1843,  so  that  he  has  been 
in  the  ministry  for  fifty-two  years.  On  January  3,  1849,  he 
was  advanced  to  the  Priesthood,  and  was  successively  Rector 
of  St.  John's  Church,  Mobile,  Ala.,  and  St.  Paul's  Church, 
Springfield,  111.,  his  Rectorship  of  the  two  parishes  covering 
a  period  of  twenty  years,  or  from  1850  to  1870.  It  was 
while  he  was  Rector  of  St.  Paul's  Church  that  he  was  elected 
by  the  House  of  Bishops  to  be  the  Missionary  Bishop  of  the 
jurisdiction  of  Arkansas  and  Indian  Territory.  His  conse- 
cration to  the  Episcopate  took  place  at  Mobile,  x\la.,  on  the 
feast  of  the  conversion  of  St.  Paul,  January  25,  1870,  the 
consecrating  Bishops  being  Bishops  Green,  of  Mississippi, 
AVhitehouse,  of  Illinois ;  R.  H.  Wilmer,  of  Alabama ;  Quin- 
tard,  of  Tennessee ;  J.  P.  B.  Wilmer,  of  Louisiana,  and 
Young,  of  Florida. 

It  may  not  be  uninteresting  to  note  that  Bishop  Pierce 
was  the  ninety-fifth  Bishop  consecrated  in  the  American  line 
of  the  Episcopate.  Of  the  Bishops  then  living  there  were 
fifty-one,  there  being  thus  fifty  Bishops  ranking  as  his  seniors 
in  office.  During  these  twenty-five  years  seventy-nine  Bishops 
have  been  consecrated,  making  174  in  all.  Of  these  eighty- 
two  are  still  living,  and  Bishop  Pierce  ranks  fifteenth  in  the 
order  of  consecration,  thus  showing  what  "manifold  changes 
and  chances"  have  characterized  the  history  of  the  House  of 
Bishops. 

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198  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

When  the  Bishop  took  charge  of  the  jurisdiction  to 
which  he  was  assigned  he  entered  upon  a  life  of  hardship, 
sacrifice  and  unremitting  toil.  The  field  he  had  entered  was 
purely  a  missionary  field,  with  a  few  scattered  congregations, 
very  feeble,  both  in  means  and  numbers,  and  far  removed 
from  one  another.  The  Episcopal  visitations  involved  great 
labor,  fatigue  and  exposure.  Only  a  very  strong  man  physic- 
ally could  undertake  such  work.  The  only  railroad  at  that 
time  in  the  State  was  the  Memphis  and  Little  Rock,  and  per- 
haps some  portions  of  other  lines.  The  great  Iron  Mountain 
system  had  not  yet  been  completed.  The  railroad  bridge  at 
Little  Rock  was  not  built  until  1872-73.  Traveling  in  the 
State  was  mostly  by  stages,  private  conveyances  and  by  boat. 
From  the  Bishop's  first  published  record  of  visitations  the 
following  extracts  are  given.  Lamenting  the  small  attend- 
ance of  the  clergy  and  laity  at  the  council,  he  says: 

"I  know  better  than  most,  it  may  be,  the  difficulties  of 
travel  in  a  State  so  ill  supplied  with  means  of  communica- 
tion as  Arkansas  is,  and  therein  I  find  a  partial  excuse  for  the 
many  vacancies  in  this  body. 

"May  2,  1871 — Started  for  Lewisville,  but  the  roads 
being  so  bad  and  the  carriage  out  of  order,  we  were  obliged 
to  return. 

"May  8 — At  2  o'clock  in  the  morning  started  for  Little 
Rock,  arriving  the  next  evening. 

"July  21 — At  night  took  a  boat  for  Fort  Smith ;  the  boat 
small  and  very  greatly  crowded. 

"August  18 — At  4  a.  m.  took  stage  for  Camden,  and, 
riding  all  night,  reached  my  destination  next  day  at  2  p.  m." 

The  above  extracts  are  simply  taken  at  random  and  give 
some  idea  of  the  missionary  field  and  work  upon  which  the 
Bishop  had  entered.  The  old  journals,  as  well  as  the  later 
ones,  show  that  he  traveled  as  many  as  8,000  and  9,000  miles 
each  year,  which  is  a  remarkable  record  of  endurance  and 
faithfulness  of  purpose. 

Shortly  after  the  Bishop's  arrival  in  the  State  steps  were 
taken  towards  the  organizing  of  the  missionary  jurisdiction 
of  Arkansas  into  i  Diocese.     To  this  end  a  convocation  was 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  199 

held  on  Ascension  Day,  May  18,  1S71,  at  which  there  were 
present  seven  clergymen  and  three  lay  delegates  from  three 
parishes.  At  this  meeting  a  full  Diocesan  organization  was 
decided  upon  and  the  Bishop  was  asked  to  call  the  primary 
council  of  the  Diocese  of  Arkansas  to  be  held  on  St.  Bartholo- 
mew's Day,  August  24,  1871.  This  primary  council  met  in 
Christ  Church,  Little  Rock,  on  the  day  appointed,  and  set 
forth  a  constitution  and  canons,  and  elected  Bishop  Pierce  as 
Diocesan.  The  first  annual  council  was  likewise  held  in 
Christ  Church,  Little  Rock,  on  May  9,  1872. 

Of  these  early  days  of  the  Bishop's  Episcopate,  very 
little  can  be  found  in  the  way  of  statistics,  showing  the  condi- 
tion of  the  Episcopal  Church  in  the  State  of  Arkansas.  But 
Church  life  was  very  feeble,  the  communicants  few  in  num- 
ber and  greatly  scattered,  and  what  parishes  there  were  were 
simply  at  the  beginning  of  things.  Long  years  of  patient 
toil,  many  discouragements  and  drawbacks,  but  withal  an 
abiding  hopefulness  must  be  experienced  before  anything  like 
an  assured  and  confident  life  could  be  realized.  The  Bishop's 
work  and  that  of  his  clergy  was  foundation  work,  and  with 
but  small  means  to  carry  on  even  that.  But  already  there 
are  many  evidences  of  life  and  strength  manifested  in  this 
still  small  Diocese  that  are  an  earnest  of  the  future.  When 
Bishop  Pierce  took  charge  there  were  but  five  church  build- 
ings, one  parsonage;  and  605  communicants,  as  reported  by 
Bishop  Lay,  who  was  translated  to  the  Diocese  of  Easton,  in 
1869.  To-day  there  are  twenty-six  church  buildings,  six- 
teen parsonages,  or  rectories,  one  guild  hall,  one  hospital, 
nearly  3,000  communicants,  and  a  Church  membership  of 
about  15,000.  The  Diocese  has  property  valued  at  some- 
thing over  $225,000  and  the  offerings  for  religious  purposes 
average  about  $30;000  a  year.  The  Episcopal  endowment 
fund  has  gradually  grown,  and  without  any  special  effort  for 
its  increase,  until  it  now  amounts  to  $13,000. 

One  work  in  this  enumeration  must  not  be  omitted. 
Bishop  Pierce  is  to  be  congratulated  that  the  twenty-fifth  an- 
niversary of  his  consecration  witnesses  the  completion  of  his 
Cathedral  and  its  entire  froedom  from  debt.        It  has  been 


200  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

a  marvel  to  us  who  were  mere  onlookers  how  the  Bishop  ever 
managed  to  accomplish  so  much.  Year  after  year  witnessed 
some  addition  until  to-day  it  stands  forth  as  a  fine  specimen 
of  old  English  Church  architecture  and  as  a  monument  to  the 
Bishop's  unfailing  faith,  business  management  and  of  the 
high  purpose  he  has  in  mine].  For  several  years  a  burden  of 
debt  rested  upon  it  which  it  was  thought  would  take  many 
years  to  lift,  but  through  the  large-hearted  liberality  of  a 
member  of  the  Cathedral  congregation  the  debt  was  paid  and 
the  Cathedral  is  now  free  and  ready  for  consecration. 

Besides  building  Trinity  Cathedral,  the  Bishop  also 
built  St.  Philip's  Church  and  parsonage  for  the  use  of  the 
colored  people  of  this  city.  This  property  is  also  free  from 
debt  through  the  Bishop's  own  efforts,  and  the  Church  is 
ready  for  consecration.  It  is  used  every  Sunday  by  a  con- 
gregation of  colored  people,  a  minister  of  their  own  race.  Rev. 
Isaiah  Daniels,  officiating.* 

But  the  life  of  a  Bishop  is  not  simply  Diocesan ;  it 
belongs  to  the  Church  Universal ;  it  touches  the  throbbing, 
pulsating  life  of  the  Church  throughout  the  world.  And 
what  great  events  and  mighty  achievements  and  advances  has 
the  venerable  Bishop  of  Arkansas  witnessed  during  these 
twenty-five  years  of  his  Episcopate !  Want  of  space  forbids 
the  happy  enumeration,  but  for  a  moment  let  us  turn  our  eyes 
on  the  growth  of  his  own  branch  of  the  Church  in  the  United 
States.  On  the  consecration  of  Bishop  Pierce  in  1870  the 
Episcopal  Church  had  thirty-nine  Dioceses  and  nine  mis- 
sionary jurisdictions,  fifty-one  Bishops  and  2,786  other 
clergy.  The  number  of  communicants  reported  was  170,000. 
In  1895  we  find  that  the  number  of  Dioceses  has  increased 
from  thirty-nine  to  fifty-three,  the  missionary  jurisdictions 
from  nine  to  eighteen,  besides  eight  missionary  jurisdictions 
in  foreign  lands,  and  the  number  of  Bishops  has  increased 
from  fifty-one  to  eighty-two,  while  the  number  of  other  clergy 


*In  the  Journal  of  the  Twenty-seventh  Annual  Council  of  the  Diocese  of  Arkan- 
sas of  date  May  3,  4  and  5,  A.  D.  1*99,  the  value  of  this  church  building  is  given  as 
$10,000  by  the  Rector,  Rev.  Douglas  I.  Hobbs:  Rectory  $2,000.  In  the  parochial  report 
of  Rev.  Isaiah  P.Daniels,  the  colored  Rector  of  St.  Philip's  Church  for  colored 
people,  its  value  is  given  as  $l,fWHi  and  Rectory  $500. 


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is  now  nearly  5,000.  To-day  the  Episcopal  Church  has 
about  600,000  communicants,  and  a  Church  membership  of 
more  than  2,000,000.  The  proportion  of  communicants  to 
the  population  twenty-five  years  ago  was  one  in  every  225 ; 
today  there  is  one  communicant  for  every  103  of  the  popula- 
tion. Or  perhaps  a  more  interesting  statement  will  be  to 
state  that  in  1820,  the  year  in  which  Bishop  Pierce  was  born, 
the  proportion  of  communicants  to  the  population  was  1  in 
416.  To-day,  as  already  stated,  there  is  one  communicant 
for  every  103  of  the  population.  In  1850,  when  Bishop 
Pierce  was  just  beginning  his  ministry,  the  population  of 
the  United  States  was  23,847,884  and  there  were  only  79,987 
communicants  in  the  Episcopal  Church.  To-day  the  State 
of  New  York  alone,  with  only  5,997,853  population,  has  240,- 
000  communicants.  These  are  remarkable  figures  and  it  is 
not  surprising  that  they  attract  attention.  The  Roman 
Catholic  News  said  recently:  "The  gain  of  the  Episcopalians 
in  this  country,  steady,  onward,  undeniable  and  that  at  the 
expense  of  the  denominations  called  evangelical,  is  one  of  the 
remarkable  characteristics  of  our  times."  The  New  York 
Evening  Post  and  Public  Opinion  have  devoted  much  space 
to  the  consideration  of  this  growth,  the  latter  remarking: 
"The  general  growth  of  the  Episcopal  Church  far  exceeds, 
proportionately,  that  of  the  population  at  large,  or  of  any 
other  religious  section  of  it  in  particular.  It  looks  like  the 
'Church  of  the  future.'  " 

All  this  remarkable  growth  and  advance  the  Bishop  of 
Arkansas  has  witnessed.  To-day  he  sees  that  there  is  not  a 
State  or  Territory  which  is  not  under  the  pastoral  care  of  a 
Bishop,  many  of  the  States  having  several  Dioceses,  each  with 
its  Bishop  at  its  head.  To-day  he  realizes  and  thanks  God 
for  it,  that  the  quiet,  persistent  loyalty  to  the  truth  as  this 
Church  has  received  the  same,  the  missionary  zeal  and  enter- 
prise, the  practical  work  enlisting  so  largely  the  labors  and 
co-operation  of  the  laity,  the  far-reaching  influence  on  the 
religious  thought  of  the  day,  the  proposal  of  terms  for  Chris- 
tian unity,  the  multiplying  of  services  and  the  more  frequent 
communions,  all  manifest  the  inner  and  outward  growth  of 


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the  Church  of  which  he  is  an  honored  Bishop,  and  demon- 
strate the  reality  and  high  purpose  of  her  mission. 

W.  J.  M. 

A.  D.  1899.  As  the  "Journal  of  the  Twenty-seventh 
Annual  Council  of  the  Diocese  of  Arkansas,  1899,"  relates 
in  detail  the  last  Diocesan  work  of  the  lamented  Bishop  while 
on  earth,  it  is  transferred  to  these  pages  intact : 

BISHOP'S  ADDRESS. 

Deai'  Brethren  of  the  Clergy  and  of  the  Laity : 

Almighty  God  has  spared  me  to  meet  you  once  more  in 
Council,  and  it  is  with  unusual  peace  of  mind  and  freedom 
from  care,  that  I  welcome  you  to  your  seats  in  this,  the 
Twenty-seventh  Annual  Session  of  this  body.  For  I  now 
know,  so  far  as  we  are  able  to  see  the  future,  and  estimate  the 
probabilities  thereof,  that  in  case  I  meet  you  here  no  more, 
there  will  be  one  who  has  already  won  your  confidence  and 
taken  from  my  shoulders  a  large  portion  of  the  burden,  to 
assume  the  remainder  of  it  when  I  lay  that  down,  or  am 
unable  to  bear  it.  Until  that  time  I  have  the  satisfaction  of 
feeling  that  peace  has  been  restored  to  the  Diocese  and  left 
it  frep,  and,  as  I  trust,  resolved  to  work  for  Christ  and  His 
one  holy  Catholic  and  Apostolic  Church,  which  is  His  Body 
mystical,  as  it  has  never  yet  worked  in  its  long  years  of 
struggles,  sometimes  severe  struggles,  for  existence.  To  one 
and  all,  I  say,  let  bygones  be  bygones  indeed,  and  let  us  hope- 
fully look  forward  to  and  pray  and  work  for  a  grand  and  a 
glorious  future  for  the  Church  in  Arkansas. 

In  reviewing  the  events  of  the  past  conciliar  Diocesan 
year,  I  find  the  most  important,  of  course,  to  be  the  consecra- 
tion of  our  beloved  Coadjutor-Bishop.  Of  that  and  of  his  work 
since  his  consecration  I  need  say  little,  for  you  are  all  fully 
informed  on  that  subject.  I  add  merely  this:  Much  good 
seed  has  been  sown  and  some  of  it  in  wholly  new  ground,  and 
even  now  first  fruits  by  no  means  scant  have  been  gathered, 


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and  the  promised  full  harvest  in  due  time  is  hopefully  and 
joyfully  anticipated  in  a  not  remote  hereafter. 

The  number  of  Clerical  changes  in  the  Diocese  during 
the  past  year  has  been  unusually  large.  I  have  given  letters 
dimissory  as  follows : 

The  Rev.  John  Gass,  transferring  him  to  the  Diocese  of 
Georgia. 

The  Rev.  E.  J.  P.  B.  Williams,  transferring  him  to  the 
Diocese  of  Springfield,  111. 

Rev.  W.  T.  Allen,  transferring  him  to  the  Diocese  of 
West  Missouri. 

The  Rev.  Douglas  I.  Hobbs,  transferring  him  to  the 
Diocese  of  Nebraska. 

I  have  accepted  letters  dimissory  presented  by  the  Rev. 
W.  D.  Buckner,  from  the  Diocese  of  Southern  Virginia ;  the 
Rev.  Caleb  B.  K.  Weed,  from  the  Diocese  of  Newark,  N.  J. ; 
the  Rev.  R,  W.  Rhames,  from  the  Diocese  of  Missouri. 

The  Rev.  George  Gordon  Smeade  has  resigned  the  Rec- 
torship of  Trinity  Church,  Pine  Bluff,  and  accepted  the  Rec- 
torship of  Christ  Church,  Little  Rock.  The  Rev.  W.  D. 
Buckner  has  succeeded  to  the  vacancy  at  Pine  Bluff.  The 
Rev.  William  Cross  resigned  the  Rectorship  of  St.  Luke's 
Church,  Hot  Springs;  was  chaplain  for  some  months  in  the 
LTnited  States  army,  and  is  now  out  of  the  State,  but  still 
Canonically  resident  in  the  Diocese  of  Arkansas.  The  Rev. 
G.  W.  Flowers  has  recently  resigned  the  Rectorship  of 
Trinity  Church,  Van  Buren,  and  is  beyond  the  bounds  of  this 
Diocese  at  present,  though  Canonically  resident  here.  The 
Rev.  Mr.  Weed  has  become  Rector  of  St,  Paul's  Church, 
Batesville.  The  Rev.  Mr.  Rhames  has  become  Rector  of 
St.  Paul's  Church,  Newport.  The  Rev.  W.  G.  Coote,  of  the 
Diocese  of  Kansas,  is  officiating  at  St.  Luke's  Church,  Hot 
Springs,  and  I  have  hopes  of  his  becoming  the  Rector  of  that 
important  parish.  The  Rev.  I.  M.  Merlinjones,  of  the  Dio- 
cese of  Los  Angeles,  Cal.,  is  officiating  at  St.  Agnes's  Church, 
Morrilton,  very  acceptably.  The  Rev.  P.  P.  Boland,  of  the 
Diocese  of  Mississippi,  is  officiating  at  the  parish  of  St. 
Johnson's,  Fort  Smith.     Trinity,  Van  Buren;  St.  Andrew's, 


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Marianna ;  The  Church  of  the  Good  Shepherd,  Forrest  City, 
and  the  mission  points  vacated  by  the  removal  of  the  Rev.  Mr. 
Williams,  are  still  without  stated  clerical  services.  But  I 
feel  assured  that  the  most  important  of  these  vacancies  will 
be  soon  filled.  I  do  not  speak  of  a  vacancy  at  Trinity  Cathe- 
dral, because  no  absolute  vacancy  can  occur  there  as  long  as 
the  Bishop  is  in  residence,  though  additional  workers  are 
needed,  and  will,  I  hope,  be  soon  secured. 

I  consecrated  the  beautiful  new  St.  John's  Church,  at 
Helena,  on  Septuagesima  Sunday  last.  Further  particulars 
concerning  this  consecration  will  be  found  in  the  abstract  of 
my  journal  under  the  date  of  January  29,  1899.  On  the 
22d  day  of  May,  1898,  I  laid  the  corner  stone  of  the  new  St. 
John's  Church,  at  Fort  Smith.  When  I  saw  this  fine  stone 
edifice  in  December  last,  the  workmen  were  finishing  off  the 
interior.  Whether  it  was  made  ready  for  Easter  services,  as 
was  then  intended,  I  have  not  been  informed.  As  there  is 
on  the  building  some  debt,  though  not  a  large  one,  considering 
its  beauty  and  substantial  character,  it  may  not  be  ready  for 
consecration  very  soon. 

Great  progress  has  been  made  in  paying  off  Church  debts 
during  the  year.  A  grand  Easter  offering  very  largely  re- 
duced that  of  Christ  Church,  Little  Rock.  That  of  St," Luke's 
Church,  Hot  Springs,  has  been  much  cut  down.  The  debt 
on  St.  Andrew's  Church  Rectory,  at  Marianna,  is  being 
steadily  lessened.  A  mere  fragment  is  left  of  the  debt  once 
resting  on  the  Deanery  of  Trinity  Cathedral.  Except  the 
five  mentioned,  I  believe  none  of  the  parishes  of  Arkansas  are 
encumbered  with  debt.  Few,  if  any,  of  the  Dioceses  of  the 
American  Church  can  show  a  better  record  than  Arkansas  in 
this  respect. 

Spiritually,  I  have  reason  to  believe  the  Diocese  has 
advanced  no  little  during  the  past  twelve  months.  This  is 
my  conviction,  though  the  small  number  of  confirmations  may 
seem  to  indicate  the  contrary.  The  past  year  has  been,  to  a 
great  degree,  a  broken  one.  Men's  minds  have  been  deeply 
stirred  by  discords — discords  international,  political,  and 
ecclesiastical — both  in  our  country  and  in  other  lands.     But 


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the  grace  of  God  has  been,  and  is,,  bringing  harmony  out  of 
discord.  That  it  has  so  far  prevailed  under  circumstances 
so  opposing  and  obstructive  shows  a  decided  advancement  in 
the  Spiritual  life  of  the  world,  the  nation,  and  the  Church 
of  God.  I  look  for  much  greater  and  much  richer  fruits  in 
the  more  peaceful  years  to  come. 

Of  the  missionary  work  in  the  Diocese  and  in  the  world 
I  shall  say  nothing  here.  I  leave  that  to  our  dear  Bishop- 
Coadjutor,  and  to  others.  They  will  tell  you  more  fully  than 
I  am  prepared  to  do,  what  has  been  done,  what  needs  to  be 
done,  what  can  be  done,  and  what  is  required  of  all  of  us  in 
order  to  accomplish  it.  And  may  the  Spirit  Divine  stir  up 
every  soul  to  perform  its  duty  to  God  and  to  man. 

On  the  Festival  of  the  Annunciation  of  the  Blessed  Vir- 
gin Mary  the  Rev.  Caleb  B.  K.  Weed,  Deacon,  was  ordered 
Priest  by  the  Rt.  Rev.  Dr.  Starkey,  in  Grace  Church,  Orange, 
1ST.  J.  T  mention  the  fact  as  certified  to  me  by  the  Bishop  of 
Newark,  because  he,  in  this  case,  simply  acted  instead  of  my- 
self, and  at  my  written  request.  This  ordination  will  be  re- 
ported by  Arkansas  at  the  next  session  of  the  General  Conven- 
tion, as  a  matter  of  course. 

As  nothing  further  occurs  to  me  which  seems  to  require 
saying  in  this  connection  on  the  present  occasion,  I  here  add 
an  abstract  of  my  Journal  for  the  year  forever  ended,  that 
you  may,  in  some  small  part,  see  what  your  Bishop  has  been 
officially  doing  during  the  past  twelve  months: 

May  8,  Sunday.  The  fourth  after  Easter.  At  11  a.  m. 
in  Trinity  Cathedral,  Little  Rock,  Dean  Hobbs  said  morning 
prayer ;  the  Rev.  A.  W.  Pierce  read  the  lessons ;  T  said  the 
Ante-Communion ;  the  Rev.  J.  J.  Vaulx  reading  the  Epistle. 
The  Rev.  R,  S.  James,  D.  D.,  preached,  and  T  closed  the  ser- 
vice.      At  4  p.  m.  I  attended  a  funeral  in  Trinity  Cathedral. 

May  15,  Sunday:  The  fifth  after  Easter.  At  11  a.  m. 
in  Woodmen's  Hall,  Baring  Cross,  after  a  special  service,  said 
by  Mr.  J.  Huntley,  I  baptized  two  children,  made  a  brief 
address  and  preached. 

May  19,  Thursday:     Ascension  Day.       At  10:.°>0  a.  m. 


206  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

in  St.  John's  Church,  Fort  Smith,  I  preached  and  received 
the  Holy  Communion. 

May  22,  Sunday:  After  Ascension.  At  11  a.  m.  in 
St.  John's  Church,  Fort  Smith,  I  preached,  confirmed  one 
person  (1  female),  and  made  an  address.  At  4  p.  m.  I  made 
an  address  and  laid  the  corner  stone  of  the  new  St.  John's 
Church,  assisted  by  the  Rev.  W.  T.  Allen,  the  Rector,  and 
members  of  the  Masonic  Lodge. 

May  25,  Wednesday:  I  this  day  gave  my  Canonical 
consent  to  the  consecration  of  the  Venerable  William  Mont- 
gomery Brown  to  be  Bishop-Coadjutor  of  the  Diocese  of  Ar- 
kansas. At  11  a.  m.  in  Trinity  Cathedral,  Little  Rock,  I 
confirmed  three  persons  (2  males,  1  female)  and  addressed 
the  class.  These  candidates  were  presented  by  the  Rev.  A. 
W.  Pierce,  and  are  registered  as  parishioners  of  the  Church 
of  the  Redeemer,  Nashville.  Ark. 

May  29,  Sunday:  Whitsunday.  At  11  a.  m.  in  Trinity 
Cathedral,  Little  Rock,  the  Rev.  A.  W.  Pierce  said  the  Lit- 
any ;  I  said  the  Communion  office ;  Dean  Hobbs  read  the 
Epistle  and  preached,  and  I  celebrated  the  Holy  Eucharist, 
assisted  by  the  Rev.  A.  W.  Pierce. 

June  5,  Sunday:  Trinity  Sunday.  At  11  a.  m.  in 
Trinity  Cathedral,  Little  Rock^  Dean  Hobbs  said  morning 
prayer,  read  the  Epistle,  preached,  and  assisted  me.  I  cele- 
brated the  Holy  Eucharist. 

June  12,  Sunday:  The  first  after  Trinity.  At  11  a.  m. 
I  assisted  in  saying  morning  services  in  Trinity  Cathedral, 
Little  Rock. 

June  14,  Tuesday:  I  this  day  gave  to  the  Rev.  John 
Gass  letters  dimissory,  transferring  him  to  the  Diocese  of 
Georgia. 

June  19,  Sunday:  The  second  after  Trinity.  At  10:30 
a.  m.  in  Woodmen's  Hall,  Baring  Cross  (St,  Barn;;<..as's  Mis- 
sion), I  preached,  confirmed  two  persons  (1  male,  1  female), 
and  addressed  the  class. 

June  24,  Friday:  Nativity  of  St.  John  the  Baptist. 
At  11  a.  m.  in  Trinity  Cathedral,  Tattle  Rock,  I  received  the 
Holy  Communion. 


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June  26,  Sunday:  The  third  after  Trinity.  At  11 
a.  m.  in  Trinity  Cathedral,  Little  Rock,  I  assisted  in  the 
service  and  received  the  Holy  Communion.  The  Rev. 
Willard  II.  Roots  preached,  and  the  Rev.  A.  W.  Pierce  was 
celebrant. 

June  29,  Wednesday:  St.  Peter's  Day.  In  St.  Paul's 
Church,  jSTewport,  at  8  :30  p.  m.,  I  joined  in  holy  matrimony 
Thomas  Jackson  Gregg  and  Miss  Lucy  Lester  Watson. 

July  3,  Sunday:  The  fourth  after  Trinity.  At  11 
a.  m.  in  Trinity  Cathedral,  Little  Rock,  the  Rev.  W.  H.  Roots 
said  morning  prayer,  Bishop  Brown  read  the  lessons,  I  said 
the  Communion  office,  Bishop  Brown  read  the  Gospel,  and 
the  Rev.  Mr.  Roots  the  Epistle.  Bishop  Brown  preached 
and  I  celebrated  the  Holy  Eucharist,  assisted  by  the  Bishop. 

July  10,  Sunday:  the  fifth  after  Trinity.'  At  11  a.  m. 
in  Trinity  Cathedral,  Little  Rock,  I  assisted  in  saying  the 
morning  service. 

July  17,  Sunday:  The  sixth  after  Trinity.  At  11  a.  m. 
in  Trinity  Cathedral,  Little  Rock,  I  assisted  at  the  morning- 
service,  and  received  the  Holy  Communion. 

July  20,  Wednesday :  The  Diocesan  Board  of  Missions. 
At  5  p.  m.  Bishop  Brown  was  present,  and  at  my  request 
presided. 

July  24,  Sunday:  The  seventh  after  Trinity.  My 
health  did  not  allow  me  to  attend  services. 

July  31,  Sunday:  The  eighth  after  Trinity.  Crippled 
up  by  rheumatism  and  unable  to  attend  services. 

August  7,  Sunday:  The  ninth  after  Trinity.  At  11 
a.  m.  in  St.  Peter's  Church,  Columbia,  Tenn.,  I  preached  and 
received  the  Holy  Communion. 

August  14,  Sunday :  The  tenth  after  Trinity.  Too  un- 
well to  attqnd  services. 

August  21,  Sunday:  The  eleventh  after  Trinity.  At 
11a.  m.  in  St.  Peter's  Church,  Columbia,  Tenn.,  I  preached. 

August  28,  Sunday:  The  twelfth  after  Trinity.  At 
11  a.  m.  in  Trinity  Cathedral,  Little  Rock,  I  received  the 
Holy  Communion. 

September  4,    Sunday :      The  thirteenth   after   Trinity. 


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At  11  a.  m.  I  received  the  Holy  Communion  in  the  Cathedral, 
Little  Rock. 

September  11,  Sunday.  The  fourteenth  after  Trinity. 
At  11  a.  m.  in  Trinity  Cathedral,  Little  Rock,  I  assisted  in 
saying  morning  service  and  received  the  Holy  Communion. 
The  Bishop  said  the  rest  of  the  service,  preached  and  cele- 
brated the  Holy  Eucharist. 

September  18,  Sunday:  The  fifteenth  after  Trinity. 
At  11  a.  m.  in  Trinity  Cathedral,  Little  Rock,  I  received  the 
Holy  Communion.     The  Rev.  A.  W.  Pierce  officiated. 

September  19,  Monday:  I  this  day  gave  letters  dimis- 
sory  to  the  Rev.  Edward  J.  P.  B.  Williams,  transferring  him 
to  the  Diocese  of  Springfield,  111. 

September  25,  Sunday:  The  sixteenth  after  Trinity.  At 
11  a.  m.  in  Trinity  Cathedral,  Little  Rock,  I  received  the 
Holy  Communion.     The  Rev.  A.  W.  Pierce  officiated. 

October  2,  Sunday :  The  seventeenth  after  Trinity. 
Owing  to  heavy  rains  and  my  rheumatism,  I  was  housed  all 
day. 

October  6,  Thursday:  At  the  House  of  Bishops,  Gen- 
eral Convention,  Washington  City,  D.  C,  all  day. 

October  7,  Friday:     At  the  House  of  Bishops  all  day. 

October  8,  Saturday:  At  the  House  of  Bishops  all 
morning. 

October  9,  Sunday:  The  eighteenth  after  Trinity.  At 
11  a.  m.  I  attended  service  in  the  Church  of  the  Epiphany, 
Washington,  D.  C. 

October  10,  Monday:     The  House  of  Bishops. 

October  11,  Tuesday:  House  of  Bishops  and  the  Board 
of  Missions. 

October  13,  Thursday:     House  of  Bishops. 

October  14,  Friday:     House  of  Bishops. 

October  16,  Sunday:  The  nineteenth  after  Trinity.  At 
10:45  a.  m.  I  preached  in  Christ  Church,  Poughkeepsie, 
N.  Y.     At  7  :30  p.  m.  I  preached  again. 

October  23,  Sunday :  The  twentieth  after  Trinity. 
Spent  in  the  country,  three  miles  from  Metuchen,  N.  J.,  want 


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of  conveyance,  added  to  bitter  cold  weather,  prevented  my 
attending  services. 

October  25,  Tuesday:     At  the  House  of  Bishops  again. 

October  30,  Sunday:  The  twenty-first  after  Trinity. 
The  weather  too  cold  for  me  to  attend  services  in  the  Cathe- 
dral. 

November  6,  Sunday :  The  twenty-second  after  Trinity. 
At  11  a.  m.  in  Trinity  Cathedral,  Little  Kock,  I  celebrated 
the  Holy  Eucharist. 

November  13,  Sunday :  The  twenty-third  after  Trinity. 
At.  11  a.  m.  in  Trinity  Cathedral,  Little  Rock,  I  read  the 
pastoral  letters  of  the  House  of  Bishops. 

November  20,  Sunday:  Next  before  Advent.  At  11  a.  m. 
in  Trinity  Cathedral,  Little  Rock,  I  received  the  Holy 
Communion. 

November  23,  Wednesday :  I  this  day  accepted  the 
letters  dimissory  presented  by  the  Rev.  W.  D.  Buckner,  from 
the  Diocese  of  Southern  Virginia. 

November  24,  Thursday:  National  Thanksgiving.  The 
cold  weather  forbade  my  attending  services. 

November  27,  Sunday:  The  first  in  Advent.  Again 
my  state  of  health  and  the  cold  weather  prevented  me  from 
attending  services. 

December  4,  Sunday :  The  second  in  Advent.  A 
snowstorm  last  night  kept  me  housed  all  day,  the  furnace  in 
the  Cathedral  not  being  in  working  order. 

December  11,  Sunday:  The  third  in  Advent.  At  11 
a.  m.  in  St.  Paul's  Church,  Fayetteville,  I  preached  and  cele- 
brated the  Holy  Eucharist,  assisted  by  the  Rector,  the  Rev.  J. 
J.  Vaulx.  At  7  :30  I  preached  and  confirmed  two  persons 
(2  males),  and  addressed  the  class.  These  confirmations 
were  administered  at  the  request  of  Bishop  Brown. 

December  18,  Sunday:  The  fourth  in  Advent.  At 
11  a.  m.  in  St.  John's  Church,  Fort  Smith,  I  preached,  con- 
firmed six  persons  (5  males,  1  female),  addressed  the  class 
and  celebrated  the  Holy  Eucharist. 

December  25,  Sunday:     Christinas  Day.     At  11  a.  m. 


210  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

in  Trinity  Cathedral,  Little  Rock,  I  celebrated  the  Holy  Eu- 
charist, assisted  by  Dean  Iiobbs. 

January  1,  Sunday:  The  Circumcision.  At  11  a.  m. 
in  Trinity  Cathedral,  Little  Rock,  I  received  the  Holy  Com- 
munion. 

January  8,  Sunday :  The  first  after  Epiphany.  I 
preached  in  Trinity  Cathedral,  Little  Rock,  at  the  morning 
service. 

January  11,  Saturday:  At  3  p.  m.  in  Trinity  Cathe- 
dral, Little  Rock,  I  officiated  at  a  funeral  assisted  by  Dean 
Hobbs. 

January  15,  Sunday:  The  second  after  Epiphany.  At 
11  a.  m.  in  Trinity  Cathedral,  Little  Rock,  I  celebrated  the 
Holy  Eucharist,  assisted  by  Dean  Hobbs. 

January  22,  Sunday:  The  third  after  Epiphany.  I 
attended  morning  service  in  Trinity  Cathedral,  Little  Rock. 

January  25,  Wednesday:  St.  Paul's  Day.  The  an- 
niversary of  my  consecration  to  the  Episcopate.  I  celebrated 
the  Holy  Eucharist  in  Trinity  Cathedral,  Little  Rock,  at  10 
a.  m.  The  Venerable  Dr.  Webber  was  gospeler  and  preached. 
Dean  Hobbs  was  epistoler. 

January  29,  Sunday:  Septuagesima.  At  11  a.  m.  I 
consecrated  to  the  service  and  worship  of  Almighty  God  the 
substantial  and  beautiful  new  St.  John's  Church,  at  Helena. 
In  this  service  I  had  the  pleasure  and  honor  of  being  assisted 
by  the  Rt.  Rev.  Dr.  Dudley,  Bishop  of  Kentucky,  and  the 
Rt.  Rev.  Dr.  Brown,  Bishop-Coadjutor  of  Arkansas.  Judge 
Thweatt  read  the  instrument  of  donation  and  Bishop  Brown 
read  the  sentence  of  consecration.  Bishop  Dudley  preached 
the  sermon.  I  said  the  Communion  office,  the  Bishop  of 
Kentucky  being-  gospeler,  and  Bishop  Brown  being  epistoler. 
I  celebrated  the  Holy  Eucharist,  assisted  by  Bishop  Dudley 
and  Bishop  Brown. 

January  30,  Monday:  T  conducted  the  examination  of 
the  Rev.  Caleb  B.  K.  Weed,  Deacon,  for  the  Priesthood,  aided 
by  the  Rev.  A.  W.  Pierce,  and  the  Rev.  William  Cross.  The 
Rev.  Mr.  Weed  has  recenty  presented  letters  dimissory  from 
the  Diocese  of  Newark,  N.  J. 


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February  4:  I  this  day  gave  letters  dimissory  to  the 
Rev.  W.  T.  Allen,  transferring'  him  to  the  Diocese  of  West 
Missouri.  I  was  very  reluctant  to  part  with  so  able  and 
faithful  a  Priest. 

February  5,  Sunday:  Sexagesima.  The  ground  being 
a  glare  of  ice  and  the  temperature  much  below  the  freezing- 
point,  I  necessarily  remained  at  home. 

February  12,  Sunday.  Quinquagesima.  The  ther- 
mometer this  morning  was  12^  degrees  below  zero,  the  coldest 
weather  I  have  known  in  Arkansas.  I  could  not  attend  the 
services. 

February  15,  Wednesday:  Ash  Wednesday.  Crippled 
up  by  rheumatism  and  at  home  all  day. 

February  19,  Sunday:  The  first  in  Lent.  Attended 
morning  service,  and  received  the  Holy  Communion. 

February  26,  Sunday :  The  second  in  Lent.  Attended 
morning  services  in  Trinity  Cathedral,  Little  Rock. 

March  5,  Sunday:  The  third  in  Lent.  I  preached 
and  received  the  Holy  Communion  in  St.  Peter's  Church, 
Columbia,  Tenn.,  at  the  morning  service. 

March  10,  Friday:  In  St.  Peter's  Church,  Columbia, 
Tenn.,  I  preached  at  the  night  service. 

March  12,  Sunday:  The  fourth  in  Lent.  In  the  morn- 
ing I  baptized  an  infant  and  preached  in  St.  Peter's  Church, 
Columbia,  Tenn. 

March  16,  Thursday:  I  confirmed  in  my  parlor  one 
person  (1  female),  registered  for  Trinity  Cathedral,  Little 
Rock. 

March  19,  Sunday:  The  fifth  in  Lent.  At  11  a.  m. 
in  St.  Luke's  Church,  Hot  Springs,  Ark.,  I  preached  and 
celebrated  the  Holy  Eucharist,  assisted  by  the  Rev.  W\  G. 
Coote,  minister  in  charge.  At  7  :30  p.  m.  I  preached  again, 
confirmed  seven  persons  (2  males,  5  females),  and  addressed 
the  class. 

March  26,  Sunday:  Next  before  Easter.  At  11  a.  m. 
in  Christ  Church,  Little  Rock,  the  Rev.  G.  G.  Smeade,  Rec- 
tor, said  the  Ante-Communion.  I  preached,  confirmed  nine 
persons  (2  males,  1  females),  addressed  the  class,  and  cele- 


212  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

brated  the  Holy  Eucharist.  At  4  p.  m.  I  assisted  in  saying 
evening  service  in  Trinity  Cathedral,  Little  Rock. 

March  30,  Thursday:  I  this  day  accepted  the  letters 
dimissory  presented  by  the  Rev.  R.  W.  Rhames,  from  the 
Diocese  of  Missouri,  and  sent  Canonical  notice  of  said  accept- 
ance.      At  4  p.  m.  I  attended  services  in  Trinity  Cathedral. 

March  31,  Friday:  Good  Friday.  I  attended  morn- 
ing service  in  Trinity  Cathedral. 

April  2,  Sunday:  Easter  Day.  At  11  a.  m.  I  cele- 
brated the  Holy  Eucharist  in  Trinity  Cathedral,  Little  Rock, 
assisted  by  Dean  Hobbs,  and  the  Rev.  A.  W.  Pierce.  At  4 
p.  m.  I  preached,  confirmed  eight  persons  (2  males,  6 
females),  and  addressed  the  class. 

April  6,  Thursday :  At  5  p.  m.  I  officiated  at  a  funeral 
in  Little  Rock. 

April  9,  Sunday:  The  first  after  Easter.  At  11  a.  m. 
in  St.  John's  Church,  Helena,  I  preached,  confirmed  fifteen 
persons  (5  males,  10  females),  addressed  the  class,  and  cele- 
brated the  Holy  Eucharist,  assisted  by  Dean  Lockwood.  At 
8  p.  m.  I  assisted  in  saying  evening  service  and  preached  in 
St.  Andrew's  Church,  Marianna. 

April  10,  Monday:  At  8  p.  m.  I  said  the  evening  service 
and  preached  in  the  Church  of  the  Good  Shepherd,  Forrest 
City. 

April  14,  Friday :  This  day  I  accepted  the  resignation 
of  the  Rev.  Douglas  I.  Hobbs  as  Dean  of  Trinity  Cathedral, 
the  same  to  take  effect  on  the  1st  day  of  May,  1899. 

April  L6,  Sunday:  The  second  after  Easter.  At  11  a.  m. 
in  Trinity  Church,  Pine  Bluff,  I  preached,  confirmed 
eleven  persons  (G  males,  5  females),  addressed  the  class,  and 
celebrated  the  Holy  Eucharist,  assisted  by  the  Rector,  the 
Rev.  W.  D.  Buckner.     At  night  I  preached  again. 

April  23,  Sunday:  The  third  after  Easter.  I  assisted 
at  morning  service  in  Trinity  Cathedral,  Little  Rock. 

April  30,  Sunday:  The  fourth  after  Easter.  At  11 
a.  m.  in  Trinity  Cathedral,  Little  Rock,  I  celebrated  the  Holy 
Eucharist.      At  4  p.  m.  I  said  evening  prayer  and  lectured. 

May  1,  Monday:     I  this  day  gave  letters  dimissory  to 


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the  Rev.  Douglas  T.  Hobbs,  transferring  him  to  the  Diocese 
of  Nebraska. 

SUMMAEY. 

Sermons  preached    24 

Addresses  made    17 

Eucharists   celebrated    17 

Number  confirmed   65 

Ordinations,    Priest    1 

Letters  Dimissory  accepted 3 

Letters  Dimissory  given 4 

Churches  consecrated 1 

Corner  stones  laid 1 

Marriages 1 

Baptisms    (infants)    2 

Funerals    2 

Miles  traveled 7,145 

The  marriages,  baptisms,  and  funerals  referred  to  here 
are  registered  in  the  parishes  where  they  took  place,  and  will 
be  included  in  their  reports. 

CONFIRMATIONS. 

For  St.  John's  Church,  Helena 15 

For  Trinity  Church,  Pine  Bluff 11 

For  Trinity  Cathedral,  Little  Rock 9 

For  Christ  Church,  Little  Rock 9 

For  St.  John's  Church,  Fort  Smith 7 

For  St.  Luke's  Church,  Hot  Springs 7 

For  Church  of  the  Redeemer,  Nashville 3 

For  St.  Paul's  Church,  Fayetteville 2 

For  St.  Barnabas'.?  Mission,  Baring  Cross 2 


65 

The    Bishop-Coadjutor    will    report    the    confirmations 

made  by  him. 

—  IB  — 


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COLLECTIONS  LOR  THE  CHURCH  DEBT  AT 

DARDAXELLE. 

Hot  Springs    $22.00 

Christ  Church,  Little  Rock 17.12 

Pine  Bluff 16.00 

Trinity  Cathedral   3.26 

Helena 6.50 

Marianna    2.50 

Forrest  City   2.11 

$69.49 

Before  closing,  I  have  one  suggestion  to  make.  I  think 
that  we  have  all  found  that  in  some  few  points  our  excellent 
Code  of  Canons  are  too  indefinite,  and,  it  may  be,  in  some 
other  points  defective.  I  think  it  would  be  wise  to  create  a 
small  committee  to  carefully  examine  the  matter  and  report 
to  the  next  Annual  Council  what  changes  are  absolutely 
required.  The  committee  should  be  small — and  it  should 
invite  the  clergy  and  laity  of  this  Diocese  to  express  their 
views  to  them  concerning  what  they  may  deem  necessary 
changes. 

With  this  suggestion,  I  leave  you  to  prosecute  the  work 
before  you.  May  the  Holy  Ghost  be  with  you  to  guide  you 
in  all  of  your  proceedings,  and  in  all  of  your  utterances. 

HENRY   NILES   PIERCE, 

Bishop  of  Arkansas. 


ABSTRACT  OF  JOURNAL  BISHOP  PIERCE. 

May  2,  1899. — I  presided  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of 
Missions  at  Bishop  Brown's.  We  got  through  about  mid- 
night. 

May  3. — I  said  the  Communion  office,  Bishop  Brown 
reading  the  Gospel,  and  Mr.  Vaulx  the  Epistle.       I  read  my 


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annual  address,  and  assisted  by  Bishop  Brown,  celebrated  the 
Holy  Eucharist.  Then  called  the  Council  to  order  and 
presided  all  day. 

May  4. — Presided  in  the  Council  till  12  :30  p.  in.,  when 
the  Council  adjourned  sine  die. 

May  7. — I  celebrated  the  Holy  Eucharist  at  Trinity 
Cathedral. 

May  11. — Ascension  Day.  Attended  celebration  in  the 
Cathedral  and  received  the  Holy  Communion. 

May  11. — I  said  morning  prayer  in  the  Cathedral  and 
received.     At  1  p.  m.  1  closed  the  services. 

May  21. — Mr.  Coote  said  the  services  and  I  celebrated 
the  Holy  Communion  at  St.  Luke's,  Hot  Springs,  and 
preached  both  morning  and  night. 

May  28. — Preached  a  sermon  and  received  the  Holy 
Communion  at  the  Cathedral  and  closed  the  afternoon  service. 

June  1. — Attended  service  at  St.  Peter's  Church,  Colum- 
bia, Tenn.,  and  at  night  preached  the  baccalaureate  sermon. 

June  7. — Commencement  exercises  at  the  Institute,  Co- 
lumbia, Tenn.  I  made  an  address  and  delivered  the  diplomas 
and  certificates. 

June  11. — At  11  a.  m.,  at  St.  Peter's  Church,  Columbia, 
Tenn.,  I  preached  the  sermon  and  received  the  Holy  Com- 
munion. 

June  IS. — At  11  a.  m.,  in  the  Cathedral,  I  said  morn- 
ing prayer  and  received  the  Holy  Communion.  At  evening 
prayer  I  closed  the  service. 

June  21. — At  9  a.  m.  I  j)resided  at  a  meeting  of  the 
Board  of  Missions,  held  at  the  Capital  Hotel. 

June  21. — St.  John  Baptist  Day.  I  attended  celebra- 
tion at  the  Cathedral  and  received  the  Holy  Communion. 

June  25. — I  said  morning  prayer  at  Trinity  Cathedral 
and  received  the  Holy  Communion.  At  evening  prayer  I 
closed  the  service. 

June  27. — Wrote  lie  v.  J.  X.  Perkins,  chairman  Church 
Building  Fund  Committee,  Xew  York,  and  inclosed  a  draft 
for  $69.19  for  Dardanelle  Church  debt,  leaving  a  balance  of 
$00.27. 


216  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

June  29. — St.  Peter's  Day.  Received  the  Holy  Com- 
munion in  the  Cathedral. 

I  this  day  accepted  letters  dimissory  from  the  Diocese  of 
Kentucky,  and  sent  canonical  notice  of  acceptance  of  Rev. 
W.  G.  Coote.  Bishop  Brown  called  and  I  handed  over  to 
him  the  statement  concerning  the  Dardanelle  Church  debt, 
and  have  his  promise  to  pay  the  balance,  $60.27,  out  of  funds 
collected  by  him  from  my  field. 

June  30. — At  2:15  p.  m.,  at  Trinity  Cathedral,  Rev. 
A.  W.  Pierce  presented  and  I  confirmed  three  persons  and 
made  a  short  address. 

July  2. — At  11  a.  m.,  at  the  Cathedral,  I  preached  and 
received  the  Holy  Communion.  In  the  afternoon  I  began  a 
sermon  on  the  "Catholic  Oranda."  At  5  p.  m.  I  closed  the 
Choral  Evensong. 

July  !). — At  11a.  m.  I  said  morning  prayer  and  received 
the  Holy  Communion.     At  Evensong  I  closed  the  service. 

July  12. — At  8  p.  m.  I  preached  in  St.  John's  Church, 
Helena,  "The  Spirit  and  the  Bride  Say  Come."  Confirmed 
eighteen  persons  and  addressed  the  class. 

July  16. — At  11  a.  m.,  in  the  Cathedral,  I  said  the 
Bishop's  part  in  the  celebration  and  received  the  Holy  Com- 
munion. 

July  19. — The  Standing  Committee  of  the  Diocese  met 
in  my  study  at  10  a.  m.,  I  being  present  at  their  request. 

July  23. — In  the  Cathedral,  at  11  a.  m.,  I  took  the 
Bishop's  part  in  the  celebration  and  received  the  Holy  Com- 
munion, after  which  Rev.  A.  W.  Pierce  baptized  William 
Starr  Mitchell,*  of  Little  Rock,  and  I  confirmed  him.  At 
5  p.  m.  I  closed  the  Choral  Evensong  with  benediction. 

July  24. — I  gave  my  Canonical  consent  to  the  conse- 
cration of  Rev.  Joseph  Marshall  Francis,  Bishop-elect  of 
Indiana. 

July  30. — At  11  a.  m.,  in  the  Cathedral,  I  said  the 
Bishop's  part  and  received.  In  the  evening  I  finished  writ- 
ing; sermon  on  the  "Catholic  Oranda." 


*This  was  the  Bishop's  last  confirmation. 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  217 

August  1. — At  9  :10  I  took  the  train  for  Fayetteville  via 
Van  Buren.  Rev.  J.  J.  Vaulx  met  me  at  the  cars  at  Fayette- 
ville  and  I  became  his  guest. 

August  0. — At  11  a.  m.,  in  St.  Paul's  Church;,  Fayette- 
ville, I  preached  the  "Catholic  Oranda ;"  said  the  Bishop's 
part  in  the  celebration  and  received  the  Holy  Communion. 
Rev.  J.  J.  Vaulx  celebrated. 

The  next  note  found  in  the  Bishop's  diary  is  that  on 
August  8  Mr.  Vaulx  started  for  Colorado  Springs  at  8  a.  m. 

The  last  entry,  August  0,  is  of  letters  written  to  Dr. 
James  at  Eureka  Springs,  to  his  wife  at  Little  Rock,  and  to 
G.  W.  Millard  at  Poughkeepsie,  X.  Y.,  which  was  the  last 
letter  written  by  him  so  far  as  known. 

On  the  next  day  he  was  seized  with  the  illness  which 
finally  resulted  in  death.  Having  gone  to  Fayetteville  for 
the  express  purpose  of  relieving  Mr.  Vaulx  so  that  he  might 
have  a  month's  vacation,  the  Bishop,  notwithstanding  his  ill- 
ness, felt  reluctant  to  omit  a  service,  and  on  Sunday,  August 
13,  he  officiated  for  the  last  time  by  a  celebration  of  the  Holy 
Communion,  without  sermon,  at  St.  Paul's,  Fayetteville. 


A.  D.  1899.  At  Trinity  Cathedral,  Little  Rock,  on 
Wednesday,  May  3,  1800,  at  11  o'clock  a.  m.  the  foregoing 
address  was  read  by  Bishop  Pierce  before  the  members  of  the 
Twenty-seventh  Annual  Council  of  the  Diocese  of  Arkansas, 
which  adjourned  sine  die  on  May  5.  Hoping  and  trusting 
that,  propped  by  the  vigorous  strength  of  the  youthful  Co- 
adjutor, and  relieved  of  care  that  had  burdened  his  infirm 
shoulders,  his  clergy  parted  from  him,  predicting  a  long  sea- 
son of  repose  before  he  should  be  called  to  buckle  on  his  armor 
to  meet  the  conqueror  Death.  But  this  was  not  to  be.  On 
the  5th  day  of  September  of  the  same  year,  after  the  short 
interval  of  four  months,  he  was  summoned  to  "the  eternal 


218  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

Sabbath  of  his  rest."  The  morning  issue  of  the  Arkansas 
Gazette,  of  the  6th,  carried  a  shock  to  the  hearts  of  its  readers 
in  the  announcement  of  his  death,  which  occurred  at  Fayette- 
ville,  Ark.,  at  10  a.  m.  the  previous  day.  Bishop  Pierce  died 
there  at  the  residence  of  Rev.  J.  J.  Vaulx,  Rector  of  St. 
Paul's  Church  at  that  place.  For  many  years  he  had  been 
accustomed  to  spend  a  three  weeks'  vacation  with  this  stead- 
fast friend  and  favorite  brother  in  Christ.  On  this  occasion 
he  was  there  to  conduct  the  services  of  the  Church,  while  the 
Rector,  who  had  been  ill,  went  to  the  mountains  of  Colorado 
for  some  rest.  When  it  became  evident  that  the  Bishop's 
illness  would  be  fatal,  his  family  was  summoned  to  his  bed- 
side. His  wife  was  ill  and  could  not  leave  her  bed,  and  Mrs. 
Lyman  was  in  Paris,  France,  but  his  son,  Rev.  Wallace 
Pierce,  and  his  daughter,  Mrs.  W.  C.  Stevens,  were  with  him 
to  the  end,  which  occurred  September  5,  and  accompanied  the 
remains  to  his  late  residence  in  Little  Rock.  Rev.  J.  J.  Vaulx 
and  wife  also  were  in  the  number  of  this  funeral  pilgrimage. 
From  the  Southern  Churchman,  of  September  14,  1899, 
the  account  of  his  burial  is  reprinted : 

The  funeral  services  were  celebrated  at  Trinity  Cathe- 
dral, Little  Rock,  Thursday,  the  7th  instant,  and  according  to 
compact  between  father  and  son,  the  Rev.  A.  Wallace  Pierce 
officiated.  The  services  were  very  solemn  and  deeply  im- 
pressive, as  well  as  instructive  to  those  who  are  unfamiliar 
with  the  best  usages  of  the  Church. 

At  10  o'clock  the  Holy  Eucharist  was  celebrated,  the  Rev. 
Mr.  Pierce,  celebrant,  the  Rev.  J.  J.  Vaulx  and  the  Rev.  D.  B. 
Ramsay  (two  oldest  priests  in  point  of  residence,  and  bosom 
friends  of  the  Bishop)  being  Gospeler  and  Epistler,  respec- 
tively. Nearly  all  the  clergy  of  the  Diocese,  together  with 
the  Rt.  Rev.  Drs.  Brown,  Arkansas;  Tuttle,  Missouri,  and 
Garrett,  Dallas,  were  present.  On  the  casket  were  six  candles 
lighted. 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  219 

At  5  o'clock,  on  account  of  the  heat,  the  regular  burial 
service  was  said.  At  this  service  all  the  clergy,  and  also  the 
choir,  were  robed.  The  large  building  was  crowded  to  its 
utmost  capacity,  the  people  thus  bearing  silently  their  testi- 
mony of  love  to  their  beloved  Bishop,  venerable  in  years,  patri- 
archal in  appearance,  and  venerated  by  hundreds  and  thous- 
ands of  hearts  throughout  the  State  of  Arkansas,  where  he 
gave  the  best  years  of  his  life  in  the  service  of  the  Master  and 
humanity. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  clergy  of  the  Diocese  of  Arkansas, 
held  at  Little  Rock  on  the  7th  instant,  the  following  minute 
was  unanimously  adopted : 

"To-day  the  clergy  of  the  Diocese,  here  assembled,  bear 
witness  to  their  grief  at  the  death  of  our  beloved  Diocesan, 
the  Et.  Rev.  Henry  Niles  Pierce,  D.  D.,  LL.  D. 

"As  our  chief  in  holy  orders  his  scholarship  and  spiritu- 
ality were  constant  inspiration  and  guide.  As  our  father  in 
God  he  was  essentially  judicial-minded,  in  no  case  ever  listen- 
ing to  an  ex  parte  statement,  no  matter  from  whatever  source 
it  came. 

"His  sympathy  always  responded  to  our  experience  of 
life.  He  listened  with  a  patient  ear  to  the  story  of  all  our 
trials  and  sorrows,  and  left  the  narrator  cheered  and  com- 
forted. 

"His  mind  was  particularly  that  of  an  instructor,  and  it 
was  a  liberal  education  to  listen  to  and  appropriate  his  views 
on  any  subject. 

"His  hospitality  was  limited  only  by  the  circumstances 
of  his  habitation. 

"His  works  were  manifold  and  will  live  after  him.  They 
were  beset  with  the  difficulties  and  hardships  of  an  early  Epis- 
copate— successes  and  disappointments  which  are  matters  of 
history,  and  will  be  discussed  elsewhere. 

"These  are  some  of  the  prominent  characteristics  of  the 
Bishop  and  the  man  which  endear  his  memory,  sanctify  his 


220  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

influence,  and  impress  the  nobility  of  Bishop  Pierce  upon  us. 

"While  we  mourn  our  loss  on  earth,  we  are  not  unmind- 
ful of  the  admonition  'not  to  sorrow  as  men  without  hope  for 
those  who  die  in  the  Lord.'  Our  Bishop's  clear  thought, 
firm  faith,  and  childlike  trust  have  been  a  blessing  from  our 
Lord  and  Master. 

"J.  J.  VAITLX, 
"D.  B.  RAMSAY, 
"C.    H.    LOCKWOOD, 
"R.  W.  RHAMES." 

The  Bishops'  testimonial  to  their  departed  brother  is  as 
follows : 

"The  brethren  of  the  House  of  Bishops  gathered  at  the 
funeral  of  the  late  Bishop  of  Arkansas  lay  his  sacred  body 
with  the  offices  of  honor  and  reverence  belonging  to  a  soldier 
brother,  with  deep  and  affectionate  sympathy  extended  to  his 
family  and  friends,  desire  to  leave  on  record  this  tribute  to 
his  memory. 

"The  late  Bishop  of  Arkansas  was  a  man  of  unusual 
mental  energy.  He  was  a  constant  student,  and  delighted  in 
keeping  perpetually  fresh  the  university  attainments  of  his 
early  years.  He  was  a  graduate  of  Brown,  and  also  professor 
of  higher  mathematics  there. 

"The  young  people  of  Little  Rock  know  well  how  often 
they  brought  their  mathematical  problems  and  other  puzzling 
questions  to  him  for  solutions,  always  finding  a  cordial  wel- 
come and  ready  solution  of  their  difficulties. 

"To  the  great  force  of  natural  ability  the  late  Bishop 
united  marked  persistence  of  character,  working  with  un- 
abated courage  towards  the  attainment  of  purpose.  The 
building  of  the  Cathedral  illustrates  these  characteristics  in 
an  impressive  manner.  Almost  single-handed  he  undertook 
the  task  of  raising  the  necessary  funds.  The  Cathedral  was 
to  express  in  the  concrete  certain  ideals  which  were  dear  to 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH,  221 

the  Bishop's  mind,  but  lacked  any  exemplification  in  the  Dio- 
cese. The  building  in  which  the  last  solemn  rites  have  just 
taken  place  over  his  remains  stands  as  at  once  the  monument 
and  memorial  of  his  earnestness  and  Catholicity  of  mind  and 
feeling. 

"As  a  man,  his  scholarship  and  superior  ability  gave  him 
influence  and  authority ;  as  a  Bishop,  he  ruled  his  large  and 
difficult  held  with  courage  and  constancy.  Everyone  knew 
his  views.       His  trumpet  gave  no  uncertain  sound. 

"Consecrated  missionary  Bishop  of  Arkansas  and  Indian 
Territory  January  25,  1870,  and  dying  at  Fayetteville,  Ark., 
September  5,  1899,  while  supplying  the  services  of  a  faithful 
pastor,  who  was  taking  a  little  time  of  needed  rest,  the  Rt. 
Rev.  Henry  Niles  Pierce,  D.  D.,  LL.  D.,  was  for  nearly 
thirty  years  a  loader  of  missionary  work  in  one  of  the  most 
eminently  missionary  regions  of  our  domestic  field.  Obstacles 
were  plentiful.  Resources  and  help  were  meagre.  But  loy- 
alty to  the  Church  and  his  Master  kept  him  unyieldingly 
steadfast  to  his  aim  of  standing  in  his  lot  and  doing  duty  to 
the  end. 

'"His  counsel  given  in  the  House  of  Bishops  was  of  great 
worth  to  his  brethren,  as  was  his  leadership  in  the  field  of 
value  to  the  Church  at  large.  The  Church  militant  mourns 
his  loss,  while  grateful  to  the  loving  mercy  of  Almighty  God 
that  his  faithful  servant  was  spared  to  do  service  to  the  last 
of  his  days  and  up  to  the  seventy-ninth  year  of  his  earthly  life. 
"DAN  S.  TUTTLE, 

"Bishop  of  Missouri. 
"ALEXANDER  C.  GARRETT, 

"Bishop  of  Dallas. 
-WILLIAM  M.  BROWN, 

"Bishop  of  Arkansas." 


222  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

TRIBUTE  TO  BISHOP  PIERCE 

FROM  REV.   T.   B.   LEE,,  RECTOR  OF  ST.  DAVId's   CHURCH, 
AUSTIN,  TEXAS. 

Rev.  T.  B.  Lee,  Rector  of  St.  David's  Church,  Austin, 
Texas,  paid  the  following  tribute  to  the  late  Bishop  Pierce 
last  Sunday: 

"I  have  kept  the  faith."  Beloved,  last  Sunday  I  took 
these  words  for  my  text,  not  knowing  then  that  a  "Prince  in 
Israel"  was  on  the  point  of  departure  from  sharing  his  Mas- 
ter's cross  to  the  radiance  of  his  Master's  crown.  Of  no  one 
could  these  words  be  more  fittingly  said,  "I  have  fought  a 
good  fight ;  I  have  finished  my  course ;  I  have  kept  the  faith," 
than  of  Henry  Niles  Pierce,  D.  D.,  first  Bishop  of  Arkansas. 
Nothing  was  nearer  his  heart  than  the  Catholic  faith.  Some 
of  you  may  remember  his  definition,  given  from  this  pulpit. 
"Catholic,"  according  to  the  whole  Church.  That  held  from 
the  beginning- — everywhere — and  by  all  as  distinguished  from 
the  accretions  which  have  gathered  upon  it,  from  the  opinions 
of  different  schools  of  thought.  Bishop  Pierce  was  so  well 
known  for  his  learning  and  his  extraordinary  gift  of  language, 
being  a  master  in  seven  or  more  languages,  that  he  was  one 
of  the  several  appointed  by  the  late  Archbishop  of  Canterbury 
to  serve  on  a  committee  to  confer  with  the  Greek  Church  in 
regard  to  the  disputed  translation  of  a  word  in  the  ISTicene 
creed,  on  which  the  eastern  and  western  branches  of  the 
Church  Catholic  disagree.  The  Greeks  say  "from  the- 
Father  through  the  Son,"  and  we  "from  the  Father  and  the 
Son."  Bishop  Pierce  held  with  the  eastern  Church.  When 
the  Bishop  held  the  Rectorship  of  Christ  Church,  Little  Rock, 
I  was  his  assistant  and  chaplain,  and  part  of  the  time  was 
an  inmate  of  his  family.  I  knew  him  as  intimately  as  one 
can  know  another,  and  we  loved  one  the  other  as  father  and 
son.  I  was  taken  into  his  great  heart,  and  revered  his  com- 
manding intellect  and  wide  learning.  "Withal  he  was  gentle 
as  a  child  and  his  sympathies  embraced  all  of  God's  creatures. 
He  never  felt  it  condescension  to  put  himself  on  a  level  with 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  223 

the  least  of  his  flock.  It  was  said  of  him  by  one  leaving  the 
Diocese,  "Bishop,  I  will  miss  the  great  rock  which  yon  are 
to  your  people."  This  describes  his  character — a  rock — im- 
movable— of  firmness,  of  truth,  of  sincerity,  of  courage — and 
I  say  without  hesitation  that  on  the  bench  of  Bishops  he  had 
not  a  peer.  Bishop,  doctor,  shepherd,  friend,  weighed  in  the 
balance  over  against  the  high  ideal  of  Thine  own  faith,  thou 
art  not  found  wanting.  Therefore,  we  thank  God  on  his 
behalf  "for  the  grace  of  God  which  was  given  him  by  Jesus  ^ 
Christ,  that  in  everything  he  was  enriched  by  Him,  in  all 
utterances,  and  in  all  knowledge,"  and  may  his  strength  be 
given  us  that  we  may  so  live  through  the  days  of  this  earthly 
life  that  we  and  all  God's  faithful  ones  may  have  our  perfect 
consummation  and  bliss,  both  in  body  and  soul,  in  His  eternal 
and  everlasting  glory  through  Jesus  Christ  our  Lord. 


IN  LOVING  MEMORY. 

RESOLUTIONS    ON    BISHOP   PIERCERS   DEATH   BY   THE    LADIES    OF 
THE  CHURCH. 

[Arkansas  Democrat,  September  23.] 

At  a  joint  meeting  of  the  Woman's  Guild,  the  Woman's 
Auxiliary  and  the  Daughters  of  the  King,  held  in  Trinity 
Cathedral  September  18,  1899,  the  following  resolutions  were 
passed : 

"Our  beloved  Bishop  having  entered  into  the  Church 
Expectant,  therefore  be  it 

''Resolved,  That  our  heartfelt  sympathy  be  extended 
his  family  in  their  deep  sorrow.  May  God  in  His  great  mercy 
comfort  them. 

"We  of  the  Cathedral  parish  are  indeed  thankful  that  it 
has  been  our  great  privilege  to  see  him  often  and  to  know 
him  well.  Those  of  us  who  have  felt  his  dear,  gentle  hands 
on  our  heads  and  the  words,  "Defend,  O  Lord,  this  thy  child," 
from  his  lips,  will  as  long  as  life  lasts  remember  him  with 
love  and  veneration. 


224  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

"Resolved,     That  a  copy  of  these  resolutions  be  sent  his 
family  and  spread  upon  our  books. 
[Signed.]  .  "MBS.  S.  M.  APPERSON, 

"President  Woman's  Guild. 
"MRS.  P.  K.  ROOTS, 
"President  Woman's  Auxiliary. 
"MISS  EMILY  ROOTS, 
"Directress  Daughters  of  the  King." 


REV.  THOMAS  BOOTH  LEE,  M.  A. 

A.  D.  1861-1872.  Rev.  Thomas  Booth  Lee,  M.  A.,  of 
Oxford,  England,  was  born  in  Brynderwyn,  Flintshire, 
England.  The  name  Lee  was  originally  spelled  Legh,  being- 
Welsh,  but  was  changed  in  spelling  with  the  inheritance  of 
some  property.  His  mother  was  Miss  Ann  Uenett  Booth, 
who,  with  her  daughters,  was  heiress  to  a  large  property.  At 
the  time  of  her  decease,  a  few  years  since,  an  English  paper 
published  the  fact  that  in  her  youth  she  and  a  sister  under- 
took the  maintenance  and  education  of  forty  poor  children. 
Rev.  Thomas  Booth  Lee  was  ordained  Deacon  in  1861,  and 
two  years  later,  1863,  was  ordained  Priest.  Tn  1869  he  was 
induced  to  come  to  this  country  and  act  as  Chaplain  to  Bishop 
Quiritard,  on  the  return  of  the  Bishop  from  England.  (Meet- 
ing Bishop  Quintard  in  England  he  was  induced  to  come.) 
After  attending  the  consecration  of  Bishop  Pierce  at  Mobile, 
Ala.,  with  Bishop  Quintard,  who  was  one  of  the  consecrating 
Bishops,  he  accompanied  the  former  to  Little  Rock,  Ark., 
January,  1870,  where  he  was  induced  to  remain,  and  served 
the  Bishop  as  assistant  in  the  office  of  Rector  of  Christ  Church. 
In  the  following  year  the  Bishop  resigned  the  office  of  Rector 
and  Rev.  Mr.  Lee  was  elected  to  fill  the  vacancy.  He  was 
the  incumbent  Rector  for  nearly  four  years.      On  July  18, 


REV.  THOMAS  BOOTH  LEE. 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  225 

1872,  he  was  married  to  .Miss  Ada  Beall  Cochrane.  Her 
father,  Richard  Ellis  Cochrane,  lieutenant  in  the  United 
States  army,  fell  at  the  head  of  his  company*  at  the  battle  of 
Resaca  de  la  Palma.  lie  was  a  descendant  of  the  Cochrane 
family  of  England,  and  one  of  his  maternal  ancestors,  Colonel 
Cooch,  was  a  colonel  in  the  French  and  Indian  war.  Another, 
the  Rev.  Evan  Evans,  was  first  Rector  of  Christ  Church,  Phil- 
adelphia. Mrs.  Lee's  mother  was  a  Miss  Beall,  of  Kentucky, 
whose  family  was  from  Virginia,  her  grandmother,  a  Miss 
Rector.  The  governors  Rector  and  Conway,  of  Arkansas, 
were  cousins  germane. 


The  treasurer's  books  of  the  Ladies'  Aid  Society  at  that 
time  show  a  loan  to  the  Building  Association  of  $1,000, 
''which  the  Vestry  appropriated  at  one  time,  but  could  not 
collect,  as  it  was  in  Bishop  Pierce's  name,  as  trustee." 

At  this  time  came  the  great  calamity  of  the  burning  of 
the  Church.  Through  the  kindness  of  Mr.  Louis  M.  Samuel, 
who  copied  the  account  from  the  files  of  the  newspaper  of  that 
date  for  the  annalist,  a  description  is  here  subjoined : 

EPISCOPAL  CHURCH  BURNED. 

BATTLE    OF    THE    ELEMENTS FIRE    AND    WATER LOSS    ABOUT 

$10,000,  INSURED  FOR  $5,000. 

(From  the  Daily  Arkansas  Gazette,  Tuesday,  Sept.  30,  1873.) 

Sunday  evening  and  night  a  continual  storm  of  rain  and 
wind,  accompanied  by  lightning,  prevailed,  which  increased 
to  almost  a  tornado  between  1  and  2  o'clock.  About  1  o'clock, 
while  the  rain  was  falling  in  torrents,  the  alarm  of  fire  was 
sounded  at  the  Pulaski  and  Torrent  engine  houses,  and  in  a 


*  Acting  Captain. 


226  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

very  short  time  it  was  discovered  that  the  Episcopal  Church, 
on  the  corner  of  Scott  and  Fifth  streets,  was  on  fire. 

Owing  to  the  storm,  comparatively  few  persons  turned 
out,  but  the  fire  laddies  responded  nobly,  and  were  by  far  the 
largest  portion  of  those  present. 

Colonel  Page,  chief  of  the  fire  department,  was  promptly 
on  the  ground.  The  Torrent  hand  engine,  with  a  good  force 
of  men,  was  the  first  at  the  fire,  but  owing  to  the  small  amount 
of  hose,  was  unable  to  do  any  service,  no  cistern  being  nearer 
than  Fourth  and  Main  streets.  The  steam  engine  Cleburne 
threw  the  first  water,  of  which  a  limited  supply  was  obtained 
at  the  corner  of  Scott  and  Third  streets,  two  squares  from  the 
fire.  Engineer  Dale  had  steam  up  some  time  before  men 
arrived  to  move  the  engine.  Shortly  after  the  Cleburne 
dropped  the  water  a  noble  stream  came  from  the  hose  of  the 
Pulaski  steamer,  at  the  corner  of  Main  and  Fourth  streets. 
Engineer  Ives  worked  the  engine  handsomely,  amidst  the 
storm,  about  an  hour,  when  the  water  gave  out. 

The  hook  and  ladder  was  pulled  to  the  corner  of  Scott  and 
Second  streets,  when  the  men  gave  out,  and  no  one  came  to 
their  assistance.  The  members  who  responded  to  the  call 
were  Bob  Bruce,  Bob  Newell,  John  Cowpland,  Harry  Thomas, 
and  Geo.  Wehr,  who  deserved  to  be  set  down  as  always  ready. 

Shortly  after  the  fire  broke  out  a  few  men  forced  an 
entrance  into  the  window  of  the  church,  and  removed  the 
larger  portion  of  the  valuable  furniture,  which,  however,  was 
badly  damaged  by  the  rain.  The  organ  was  removed  by  Louis 
Bernays  and  Henry  Brodkins,  among  the  first  on  the  grounds. 

At  1 :20  the  whole  tower  was  a  mass  of  flames,  burning 
like  tinder,  and  the  rain,  which  fell  in  volumes,  seemed  not 
to  have  the  slightest  effect. 

At  1 :25  the  bell,  with  a  terrible  crash,  fell  to  the  ground 
and  two  of  the  corner  posts  fell  out. 

At  1 :45  the  roof  caught  fire  from  the  inside,  and  the 
front  wall  fell  out  like  a  crash  of  thunder. 

At  2  the  whole  building  was  a  raging  mass  of  flames, 
which  no  amount  of  water  could  subdue. 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  227 

Policeman  Wolf,  who  was  on  the  night  watch,  was  the 
first  to  see  the  fire,  which  was  burning  in  the  lower  portion  of 
the  tower.  He  sounded  the  alarm  and  deserves  credit  for  his 
watchfulness  and  prompt  action. 

After  the  roof  was  burned,  the  rain,  in  a  great  measure, 
subdued  the  fire,  and  at  9  o'clock  yesterday  morning  the  three 
standing  walls  and  a  few  burned  and  charred  timber  were  all 
that  remained  of  what  a  few  hours  before  was  a  handsome 
house  of  worship. 

The  cause  of  the  fire  is  a  mystery,  but  the  general  opinion 
is  that  it  was  occasioned  by  lightning.  Assistant  Rector  Lee 
knows  of  but  two  ways  in  which  it  could  have  been  fired — by 
lightning,  or  that  some  man  went  to  sleep  in  the  tower  with  a 
lighted  cigar  or  pipe.  The  loss  is  about  $10,000,  and  the 
insurance  $5,000;  $2,500  in  the  Franklin,  of  Philadelphia; 
$2,500  in  the  Peoples,  of  Arkansas. 

There  was  to  have  been  confirmation  in  the  Church  Sun- 
day evening,  but  the  storm  prevented  the  service. 

This  Church  was  of  brick,  and  erected  in  1841,  by  Mr. 
Geo.  S.  Morrison.  Bishop  H.  jST.  Pierce  is  the  Rector  and 
Rev.  T.  B.  Lee,  assistant,  and  the  communicants  number 
about  300.  The  lot  on  which  the  Church  was  erected  was 
conveyed  to  Judge  John  Wassell,  who  laid  out  the  lots,  made 
the  plans,  and  had  the  edifice  built.  The  successive  pastors 
were  Rev.  W.  H.  C.  Yeager,  Rev.  Jas.  Young,  Rev.  Wm.  San- 
ders, Rev.  A.  F.  Freeman.  During  the  two  years,  commenc- 
ing September,  1870,  Rev.  E.  S.  Peake,  a  Federal  chaplain, 
occupied  the  position.  Then  came  Rev.  P.  G.  Robert,  fol- 
lowed by  Rev.  H.  H.  Morrell,  and  then  the  present  occupants. 

The  Vestry  of  the  Church  desires  to  express  their  thanks 
to  the  firemen  and  other  gentlemen  who  so  gallantly  aided  in 
rescuing  from  the  flames  numerous  articles  of  furniture, 
which,  but  for  their  timely  assistance  and  presence  of  mind, 
would  have  been  destroyed. 

The  Vestry  also  desires  to  state  that  a  temporary  place  of 
worship  will  be  provided  in  time  for  the  services  of  next  Sab- 
bath, notice  of  which  will  be  duly  given. 


228  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

EPISCOPAL  CHURCH. 

(From  the  Daily  Arkansas  Gazette,  Thursday,  Oct.  2,  1873.) 

The  services  Sunday  will  be  held  in  the  Opera  House,  on 
Main  street,  at  11  o'clock  in  the  morning,  and  7:30  in  the 
evening.  Every  member  of  the  congregation  is  earnestly 
requested  to  attend. 

The  Holy  Communion  will  be  celebrated  at  the  Rectory, 
at  the  residence  of  Bishop  Pierce,  at  0  o'clock  in  the  morning. 


At  the  time  of  the  fire  the  old  Church  was  scarcely  large 
enough  for  the  regular  congregation.  The  plans  for  the 
second  Church  were  accepted  and  the  foundatipn  laid  during 
the  incumbency  of  Rev.  Mr.  Lee.  The  members  of  the  Vestry 
were  Mr.  Luke  E.  Barber,  Mr.  John  Wassell,  Judge  Ringo, 
Mr.  W.  B.  Wait,  and  others.  The  organist  was  Miss  Mary 
E.  Harrell.  The  quartette  choir  was  composed  of  sopranos 
at  successive  times,  Mrs.  Helen  Ames,  Miss  Edwards ;  the  alto, 
Mrs.  Win.  G.  Whipple ;  tenor,  Judge  W.  I.  Warwick ;  bass, 
Colonel  W.  G.  Whipple.  The  president  of  the  Ladies'  Aid 
Society  at  this  time  was  Mrs.  H.  1ST.  Pierce;  and  Miss  Ada 
Beall  Cochrane,  treasurer ;  Miss  Georgie  Woodruff,  secretary. 
The  organist  was  Mrs.  Kerr ;  the  choir  was  composed  of  Miss 
Lily  Wright  and  Miss  Lillian  Cantrell,  sopranos;  Mrs.  W.  G. 
Whipple,  alto;  Major  Smith,  tenor,  and  Colonel  W.  G. 
Whipple,  basso. 

For  four  years  the  Rev.  T.  B.  Lee  administered  the  ser- 
vices of  the  Church  in  the  Opera  House  and  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce. He  was  then  transferred  to  the  Diocese  of  Northern 
Texas,  and  became  Rector  of  St.  David's  Church,  at  Austin, 
of  which  he  now  has  charge. 

Rev.  Tul I ius  C.  Tapper,  I).  D.,  was  called  to  fill  the 
vacancy,  and  for  eleven  years  he  officiated  in  the  Supreme 
Court  room,  and  in  the  Chapel,  which  the  congregation  had 
caused  to  be  erected,  watching  the  upbuilding  of  the  temple 
which  grew  to  be  the  ornament  of  the  city.  He  resigned  his 
office  to  accept  a  call  at  Leavenworth,  Kan.,  just  before  the 
new  Church  was  completed. 


CHRIST  CHURCH,  LITTLE  ROCK,  ARKANSAS. 

OCCUPIED    EASTEE   SUNDAY,    APRIL  10,  1887. 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH  229 


PART  SECOND. 


THE  BUILDING  OF  THE  CHURCH. 

MAKE    THOU    MINE   EARTHLY    HABITATION    GLORIOUS. 
BY    FAY    HEMPSTEAD. 

Tall  tower  that  risesf  fair  and  high, 

Toward  the  vault  of  yonder  sky, 

And  beamest  o'er  a  prospect  wide, 

Of  city  waste  and  country  side ; 

Look  down  in  grace  and  grandeur  more, 

And  stateliness  than  e'er  before; 

Look  on  us  drawn  through  many  ways 

To  lift  the  voice  of  grateful  praise, 

Eor  this  the  end  of  all  the  toil, 

The  delving  hand,  the  ceaseless  moil ; 

Of  all  the  labor  and  the  care, 

That  marked  thy  growth  from  year  to  year: 

And  brought  thee  on  by  slow  degree, 

To  this  full  strength  that  crowneth  thee ! 

Fair  house,  ye  long  in  building  rose; 
And  now  thy  far-drawn  labors  close, 
Thou  standest  clad  in  splendid  guise, 
All  rich  in  tint  and  fair  in  dyes. 
Like  the  King's  daughter  art  thou  made 
In  vesture  glorious  arrayed. 
O'er  aisle  and  chancel,  nave  and  beam, 
The  sun  rays,  many-tinted,  stream, 
As  clear  thy  blazoned  windows  shine, 
Through  vaulted  arches  roofed  with  pine. 
And  holier  seeming  shalt  thou  make, 
Yon  organ's  rolling  thunders  shake ; 

—16— 


230  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

Or  loud  thy  towered  steeple  clang, 
When  some  deep  clarion  there  shall  hang, 
And  scatter  through  the  smitten  air, 
The  wide  repeated  call  to  prayer: 
Or  yet  o'er  dirges  sad  and  low, 
Shall  toll  a  deeper  note  of  woe. 

And  what  were  all  the  past  regret 
So  slowly  wert  thou  forward  set? 
Doth  not  this  day  for  all  atone  ? 
The  triumph  of  this  day  alone? 
ISTot  this  enough  ?       Doth  not  the  end 
For  all  the  past  make  fit  amend  ? 
Yea,  should  we  rather  honor  those, 
Who  from  the  dawning  to  the  close, 
The  zealous  few,  the  willing  band, 
Who  wrought  with  ready  heart  and  hand, 
Through  hours  of  censure  and  dispraise ; 
Through  weary  seasons,  cheerless  days ; 
Through  days  of  failure,  times  of  doubt, 
Till  thus  the  end  is  brought  about. 

And  long  mayest  thou,  O  house  of  prayer, 

Stand  in  thy  shining  presence  there ! 

Long  may  the  years  go  by  ere  thou 

Shalt  lightly  show  on  breast  or  brow, 

The  earlier  traces  of  decay, 

Or  that  thy  beauty  fade  away ! 

Long  may  ye  stand  to  be  indeed 

The  center  of  thy  people's  need. 

And  be  for  them  the  force  that  stays, 

Their  footsteps  through  life's  winding  ways ! 

To  thee  oft  come  the  trusting  bride 
And  pledge  to  him  who  stands  beside, 
Her  life  entire  with  his  entwined, 
One  equal  blend  of  heart  and  mind. 
To  thee  for  long  the  child  be  brought, 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  231 

And  in  thy  holy  lessons  taught, 

To  lisp  the  prayer,  to  hymn  the  praise, 

Through  numberless  succeeding  days. 

In  thee  through  time  eternal  be, 

The  infant  pledged  to  purity; 

The  cross  be  signed  upon  the  front, 

Beside  the  waters  of  thv  Font. 

And  as  the  future  time  unfolds, 

Full  many  be  the  zealous  souls, 

To  dedicate  their  lives  anew, 

To  worship  of  the  Pure  and  True ; 

Full  many  at  thy  sacred  board, 

By  faith  feed  on  the  risen  Lord, 

And  take  through  grace  of  Love  Divine, 

As  sacred  types,  the  bread  and  wine ! 

And  more:  when  past  thy  portal  go, 
The  feet  that  moving  sad  and  slow, 
Bear  lowly  forth  the  bier  and  pall, 
To  that  low  house  that  waiteth  all, 
Oh,  may  the  word  from  out  thy  place, 
Dry  off  the  tear  from  many  a  face, 
Of  those  who  mourn  the  spirit  fled, 
To  those  fair  lands  where  rest  the  dead: 
And  be  the  well-springs  of  relief, 
To  quell  the  rising  pangs  of  grief. 

And  thou,  O  servant  of  His  grace, 
That  speakest  from  the  Holy  place, 
What  Minister  soe'er  shall  prove 
Interpreter  to  speak  His  love, 
Be  blessings  showered  on  thy  ways, 
And  peace  be  on  thy  forward  days ! 
May  all  thy  walk  be  whole  and  good, 
Thy  labors  crowned  with  plentitude ; 
Thy  prayers  be  voices  of  the  heart, 
In  which  thy  inner  self  hath  part ! 


232  TE    ANNALS     OF    CHRIST    CHURCH     PARISH. 

Be  purity  in  alb  and  stole, 

But  typical  of  cleanly  soul, 

And  through  the  voice  of  fervor  hurled, 

Preach  thou  the  Christ  to  all  the  world ! 

— Fay  Hempstead. 


REPORT  OF  COMMITTEE 

OX  TIIE  COST  OF  BUILDING  CHRIST  CHURCH,  ACCOMPANIED  BY 
AN   ITEMIZED   STATEMENT. 

Little  Rock,  Ark.,  1887. 

To  the  Rector  and  Vestry  of  Christ  Church : 

Gentlemen — Your  committee  have  examined  the  books 
and  papers  of  the  building  committee  of  Christ  Church,  and 
after  a  thorough  investigation,  beg  leave  to  submit  the  enclosed 
itemized  statement  of  receipts  and  expenditures.  This  state- 
ment includes  the  names  of  subscribers  and  the  amounts  sub- 
scribed ;  the  cost  of  windows  donated;  and  the  names  of  the 
donors ;  and  the  amounts  paid  for  pews,  and  the  names  of  the 
purchasers,  and  shows  that — ■ 

The  foundation  cost $10,719.14 

The  superstructure  cost 45,799.01 

$56,518.15 

Amount  received  from    subscribers, 

windows  and  pews $38,945.58 

Amount     received     from      sale     of 

Rectory    3,361.75 

Amount  received  from  insurance  on 

old  church  and  interest 5,211.49 

Amount  received  from  sale  of  ma- 
terial, etc 1,999.33 

$49,518.15     $49,518.15 

Leaving  a  debt  of $  7,000.00 


the:   ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  233 

It  is  but  justice  to  the  building  committee  to  say  in  this 
report,  what  is  well  known  to  every  member  of  this  congrega- 
tion, that  they  have  built  for  us  a  most  suitable  and  beautiful 
church  at  a  remarkably  low  price,  and  the  thanks  of  every 
member  of  Christ  Church  are  due  to  them  as  a  committee  and 
individually. 

Colonel  S.  L.  Griffith  rendered  a  service  in  soliciting  con- 
tributions, with  a  degree  of  success  that  no  one  with  less  than 
his  great  zeal  and  urbanity  could  have  achieved. 

Mr.  W.  B.  Wait  has  for  years  given  to  us  the  benefit  of  a 
ripe  financial  wisdom,  that  has  guided  the  committee  through 
difficulties  that  must  otherwise  have  materially  postponed  the 
completion  of  the  building.  Such  services  could  not  be  pro- 
cured for  money. 

Mr.  J.  H.  Haney  for  five  years  has  superintended  the 
work  on  the  building;  seen  that  everything  was  done  in 
accordance  with  contracts  and  specifications ;  rendering  ser- 
vices that  have  certainly  lessened  the  cost  of  the  building  10 
per  cent,  with  faithfulness  and  love  of  the  work  which  it  would 
be  impossible  to  hire. 

Mr.  G.  H.  Van  Etten  has  given  the  committee  the  benefit 
of  his  extensive  acquaintance  with  the  market  price  of  build- 
ing material,  enabling  them  to  buy  with  rare  judgment,  and 
at  the  right  time  and  place. 

Mr.  Logan  IT.  Roots  has  ever  stood  ready  to  furnish  the 
means  for  the  steady  continuance  of  the  work,  which  but  for 
his  timely  pecuniary  assistance  must  have  stopped  many  times. 
This  willingness  to  advance  money  to  a  struggling  Church  is 
one  of  the  rarest  of  virtues. 

Mr.  W.  G.  Whipple,  though  not  a  member  of  the  com- 
mittee, yet  eager  to  aid  in  the  completion  of  the  building,  has 
taken  upon  himself  the  most  disagreeable  duty  of  soliciting 
subscriptions,  and  has  performed  the  work  in  a  manner  that 
can  only  be  appreciated  when  the  large  amount  paid  in  is 
considered.  L.  R.  STARK, 

R.  L.  GOODRICH, 
F.  D.  CLARKE, 

Committee. 


234  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

P.  S. — It  is  only  honest  to  state  that  the  immense  amount 
of  clerical  work  and  investigation  imposed  by  you  upon  this 
committee,  has  been  performed  entirely  by  Mr.  Ralph  L. 
Goodrich,  the  other  two  members  only  verifying  his  results. 

L.  R.  STARK. 

F.    D.    CLARKE. 

ITEMIZED  STATEMENT. 

1JST    OF    SUBSCRIBERS    AND    AMOUNTS    SUBSCRIBED    TO    CHRIST 

CHURCH. 

Augspath,  Mrs.  Aldence $  20.00 

Arkansas  Pump  and  Pipe  Co 2.43 

Anderson,  Mrs 5.00 

Adams,  Sam  B 68.75 

Adams,  Mrs.  E.  C.  (window  $300,  cash  $475) .  .  .  775.00 

Adams,  W.  W 105.00 

Allis,  H.  B 10.00 

Adams,  Mrs.  K.  and  Mrs.  Woodruff  (col.  by) 56.25 

Abeles  &  Co.,  C.  T 25.00 

Abeles,  Cook  &  Co 66.59 

Alexander,  J.  C 10.00 

Allis,  H.  G 90.00 

Adams,  A.  F 6.75 

Austin,  J.  W 15.00 

Adams,    Jno.    D.     (window    $800,    pew    $2,000, 

cash  $500) 3,300.00 

Adams,  Mrs.  John  D.   (rugs) 11.00 

Adams,  J.  Dudley 133.75 

Barber,  L.  E.  (window  $300,  cash  $400) 700.00 

Barber,  Gwinn 25.00 

Bay,  J.  L 7.00 

Blass,  Jacob 1.00 

Butler,  CM 100.00 

Benjamin,  M.  W 25.00 

Brower,  D.  A 50.00 

Blass  &  Co.,  Gus 20.00 

Baird,  J.  W 25.00 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  235 

Breysacher,  Mrs.  and  Little  May 6.00 

Breysacher,  A.  L 125.00 

Bernays,  L.  C 100.00 

Bern,  H.  H 5.00 

Beach,  A.  D 5.00 

Brack,  G.  S 180.00 

Bunch,  T.  H 10.00 

Bankes,  T.  W 175.00 

Belding,  A 5.00 

Brown,   Geo.   Buss    25.00 

Bartlett,  B.  J 32.00 

Butler,  Robert 5.00 

Cochrane,  Mrs.  H.  K 5.00 

Clements,   Miss  Jennie  B 20.00 

Oribbs,  Miss  Lee 5.00 

Caldwell,  H.  C 10.00 

Carnes,  P.  H 10.00 

Carroll,  Mrs.  Rachel 25.00 

Carroll,  Miss  Fannie 5.00 

Crease,  Miss  (col.  by) 10.00 

Christ  Church  Sunday  School 83.00 

Christ  Church  S.  S.  (Easter  col.  at  Church) 174.35 

Calef  &  Deshon 20.00 

Colburn  &  Co.,  J.  M 10.00 

Cohen,  Albert    10.25 

Clark,  Sol  F 10.00 

Cohn,  M.  M 15.00 

Conrad,  C.  H 17.50 

Cole,  C.  H 100.00 

Cockrill,  S.  R 250.00 

Clements,  Jno.  B 2.10 

Curran,  W.  S 8.75 

Clark,  F.  D 25.00 

Cantrell,  W.  A 30.00 

Cherry,  L.  W 5.00 

Carroll,  C.   S 4.00 

Carroll,   S.   C 2.00 

Cassenelli,  L.  D 2.00 


236  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

Deshon,  A.  G.  (window  $200,  cash  $100) 300.00 

Dungan,   Jno 5.00 

Dibrell,  Mrs.  Dr 10.00 

Darragh,  T.  J 10.00 

Davis,  Oscar 10.00 

Donations  by  ladies  (col.  by  Mrs.  Haney) 9.00 

Deuell,  E.  V 100.00 

Dooley,  P.  C 35.00 

Douglass,  E.  E 25.00 

Dean,  C.  C 10.00 

Fletcher,  John  G 200.00 

Fatherly,  W.  A 7.00 

Fones  Bros 84.80 

Frolich,  Mrs 25.00 

Faber,  H 1.00 

Feeton,  Jno 15.00 

Farrell,  Wm 50.00 

Gibson,  L.  P 10.00 

Goodwin,  John  W 100.00 

Godbold,  A 5.00 

Gress  &  Leigh 35.00 

Goodrich,  Kalph  L.  (window  $250,  cash  $370)  .  .  620.00 

Griffith,  S.  L 205.00 

Garland,  A.  H 35.00 

Hooper,  P.  0 50.00 

Haney,  J.  H 200.00 

Hutt,  A.  J 8.75 

Hntt,  W.  S 33.75 

Hughes,  Geo.  A 10.00 

Hornibrook,  Jas.  A 10.00 

Hempstead,  F 5.00 

Hall,  Mr 5.00 

Homan,  Mrs 10.00 

Halliburton,  W.  H 50.00 

Jabine,  John  N 110.00 

Jabine,  Mrs.  Harry 5.00 

Jones,  D.  E.    .  .  .  . 15.00 

Jordan,   Miss   Matilda    5.00 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  237 

H.  C.  Jones 10.00 

Jennings,  K.  G 100.00 

Kirkwood,  J.  B 17.50 

Kirkwood,  T.  C 1 7.50 

Kirkwood,  Geo.  F 12.50 

Kramer,  Fred    20.00 

Kutner,  Wm 1.00 

Kirten,  Wm 92.50 

Kendrick,  J.  T 40.00 

Knapp,  Gilbert    30.00 

Krause,  Miss  Lon 50.00 

Lawson,   Miss   Nellie    5.00 

Ladies'  Aid  Society 5,614.00 

Ladies'  Aid  Society  (carpets) 1,170.00 

Ladies'  Aid  Society  (upholstery) 125.00 

Ladies'  Aid  Society  (wardrobe) 25.50 

Landeau,  Alex 50 

Lawson,  Mrs.  James  (col.  by) 4.50 

Lewis,  Mrs.  L.  (window  $300,  with  Peyton,  Peay, 

and  Crease)    1 5.00 

Lincoln,  C.  J 100.00 

Lenow,  Mrs.  J.  H 85.00 

Martin,  Mrs.  A.  E 100.00 

Meade,  Geo.  H 325.00 

Miller,  Jas.  K 200.00 

Mortimer,  H 1.00 

McCarthy,  J.  H 100.00 

McNair, *  Willis    2.00 

McSwine,  G.  R 10.00 

Marye,  Travers   5.00 

Maxwell,  Mrs.  Mary  J 17.50 

Murphy,  Will  J.   .  . 8.75 

Matthews,  K.  J 50.00 

Matthews,  Jno.  L 100.00 

Mandlebaum,  J.  J 3.50 

Martin,  Fred 5.00 

Mitchell,  Jno.  A 10.00 

Miller,  J) 30.00 


238  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

Miller,  Wiley  B 297.00 

Mivelaz,  P.  L 1.00 

Maxwell,  Family 100.00 

Matthews,  Miss  Annie 5.00 

Mitchell,  John 10.00 

Martin,  R.  W 10.00 

Mast,  J.  W 2.50 

Martin,  Geo.  W 5.00 

McSwine,  Mrs.  P.  A 5.00 

Mivelaz,  P 2.00 

Morrell,  Miss  Lottie  (Bible  book  mark) 25.00 

Newton,  E.  C 40.00 

Newton,  T.  W 5.00 

Navra,  Sam 5.00 

Peay,  Mrs.  Sue  (window  $300,  cash  $17) 317.00 

Peay,  G.  N 145.84 

Powell,  T.  C 5.00 

Percival,  J.  M 20.00 

Parker,  Ed  W 17.50 

Percival,  J.  C 10.00 

Pollock,  A 2.50 

Pettefer,  Ambrose 30.00 

Pettefer,  H 30.00 

Polk,  R.  J 75.00 

Peyton,  Mrs.  C.  (window  $300,  cash  $40,  Crease, 

Peay,  etc.)    340.00 

Phillips,  Philip   (concert) 42.75 

Pollock,  J.   S 25.00 

Pabodie,  Mrs 5.00 

Parkins,  Mrs.  S 10.00 

Penzel,  C.  F 25.00 

Quinn  &  Gray 25.00 

Ragland,  Mr. 10.00 

Rudolph,  C 1 .00 

Ruley,  A.  G 30.00 

Reeves,  W.  L 15.00 

Reeves,  E.  T 10.00 

Ryan  &  Co.,  A.  H 1.00 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  239 

Roots,  Mrs.  E.  M 50.00 

Eees,  S.  P 5.00 

Rector,  H.  M 10.00 

Rose,  U.  M 233.33 

Roberts,  W.  L 6.25 

Reed,  F.  C 10.00 

Reiley,  T.  G 10.00 

Roots,  P.  K 300.00 

Roots,  P.  K.  (altar) 135.00 

Rather,  H.  C 5.00 

Roots,  L.  EL.  (window  $1,200,   two  pews  $4,000, 

cash  $4,014.54)    9,214.54 

Smothers,  L.  P 35.00 

Shadinger,  J.  H 5.00 

Sevier,  A.  H 175.00 

Stanus,  W.  N 5.00 

Slaughter,  J.  A 87.50 

Stark,  Dr.  L.  R 20.00 

Smith,  Sam  0 100.00 

Stewart,  Baylor  R 17.50 

Smith,  Mrs.  R.  S 4.00 

Shaw,  M.  W 5.00 

Stifft,  C.  S 5.00 

Sterling,  Mrs.  B.  B 10.00 

Stratman,  G.  H 50.00 

Scott,  Mrs.  E.  L 25.00 

Seward,  S.  B 10.00 

Sappington,   Mrs.    Colonel 10.00 

Skipwith,  Mrs 10.00 

Sannoner,  J.  H 95.00 

Smith,  W.  W 250.00 

Smith,  J.  W 15.00 

Sell,  Mrs.  H 5.00 

Scott,  Miss  Fanny  (by  subs.,  altar  cross) 52.50 

Shall,  Miss  Mary  and  others  (Com.  service)  ....  500.00 

Turner,  W.  J.  . 62.50 

Trezzare,  Miss  A.  R 2.00 

Trezevant,   J.    T.,   Jr 142.73 


240  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

Townsley,  II.   S 10.00 

Townsley,  E.  G 10.00 

Terry,  F.  A 6.25 

Tupper,  T.  C 75.00 

Trumpler,  J.  F 1.00 

Thompson,  W.  J 10.00 

Tobey,  W.  E 10.00 

Taylor,  Dr.  C.  M.  (col.  by  Miss  Crease) 100.00 

Urqukart,  E.  (pew  $2,000) 500.00 

Upham,  Mrs.  Lizzie  (window  $250,  cash  $25)  .  .  .  275.00 

Van  Etten,  G.  H.  (pew  $2,000) 2,000.00 

Vickers,  H.  L 10.00 

Wilson,  W.  T 5.00 

Woodruff,  Wm.  E.,  Jr 50.00 

Woodruff,  Mrs.  W.  E.,  Jr 20.00 

Woodruff,  dies.  A 8.75 

Woodruff,  Miss  Willie 5.00 

Woodruff,  Miss  Georgia  and    Mrs.    Jno.    Jabine 

(Bishop's  chair) 75.00 

Waters,  C.  C 50.00 

Whipple,  Wm.  G 150.00 

WThipple,  Wm.  G.   (C.  C.  concert) 44.30 

Wright,  W.  F 300.00 

Webster,  Geo 10.00 

Watkins,  Miss  Ida $105.00 

Watkins,  Miss  Georgia  C 100.00 

Window 300.00  505.00 

Wright,  W.  H 25.00 

West,  Henry  C 8.75 

Wilson  &  Webb 15.00 

Watkins,  Dr.  Claiborne   475.00 

Wells  &  Dungan 17.27 

Woodsmall,  W.  H 20.00 

Williams,  Ham   5.00 

Williams  &  Co.,   by   Slaughter 100.00 

Waters,  D.   S.    .  .  . ' 45.00 

Worthen,  W.  B 60.00 

Wait,  W.  B 1,203.00 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  241 

Wassell,  John  (window  $350,  cash  $510) 800.00 

Young  Ladies'  Guild  (font) 205.00 

Young  Ladies'   Guild    (Bible) 50.00 

Zimmerman,  J.  V 70.00 


Amount  individual  subscriptions $38,945.58 

Rectory,  sale  of $  3,361.75 

Materials  sold  by  Captain  Haney 1.00 

Proceeds  of  pressed  brick 121.25 

M.  &  L.  R.  R.  R.  overcharges 03.33 

M.  &  L.  R.  R.  R.  overcharges 0.00 

Overfreight 21.00 

Overwork 5.00 

Insurance  on  old  church 5,211.49 

From  sale  of  old  material  on  foundation,  etc 1,751.75 


Amount  derived  from  other    sources    than    indi- 
vidual subscriptions $10,572.57 

Forward  individual  subscriptions 38,945.58 

$49,518.15 
Debt 7,000.00 


Total  cost $56,518.1 


i) 


LIST   OF  WINDOW   SUBSCRIBERS. 


Adams,  John  D $  800.00 

Adams,  Mrs.  E.  C 300.00 

Barber,  Mrs.  L.  E 300.00 

Deshon,  Mrs.  A.  G 200.00 

Goodrich,  R.  L 250.00 

Peay,  Mrs.  Sue 300.00 

Peyton,  Mrs.  C.    (Crease,  Peay,  Lewis) 300.00 

Upham,  Mrs.  Lizzie 250.00 

Wassell,  Mrs.  J 350.00 

Watkins,  Misses  Ida  and  Georgia  C 300.00 

Roots,  L.  H 1,200.00 

$  4,550.00 


242  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

Actual    cost    of   foundation    as    per 

books $10,719.14 

Actual  cost  of  superstructure  as  per 

books $35,704.67  * 

Account  paid 188.09 

Account  paid 180.00 

Choir  pews 71.00 

Ventilating  apparatus 105.00 

Insurance 500.00 

Altar  cross 52.50 

Altar 135.00 

Bishop's  chair 75.00 

Bible 50.00 

Font   265.00 

Credence 20.00 

Carpets 1,170.00 

Stools 125.00 

Wardrobe 25.00 

Bible  mark 25.00 

Moving-organ 75.00 

Communion  service 500.00 

Eugs 11.00 

Safe  and  furniture 130.00 

$39,410.26     $39,410.26 

$50,129.40 
Less  amounts  not  chargeable  to  cost 

of  church  as  advances  returned .  $      880.00 
Repairs  on  rectory 281.25 

Borrowed    money    now    included  in 

item  "debt"    4,000.00 

$  5,161.25     $  5,161.25 

$44,968.15 

Debt 7,000.00 

Windows .      4,550.00 

Total  cost $56,518.15 


REV.  T.  C.  TUPPER,  D.  D. 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  243 

COST  OF  FOUNDATION. 

Received.  Expended. 

Trezevant   $  8,983.08  $  8,966.34 

Wait 810.32  772.45 

Wait 130.00  184.61 

Wassell 795.74  795.74 


$10,719.14     $10,719.14 

COST   OF  SUPERSTRUCTURE. 

Total  amt.  received  as  per  books,  etc. $34,249.01 

Total  amt.  expended  as  per  books,  etc.  $34,249.01 

Debt 7,000.00  7,000.00 

Windows 4,550.00  4,550.00 

$56,518.15     $56,518.15 

Whole  amt.  subscribed  to  church,  individuals  and 

windows,  etc $38,945.58 

Sale  of  rectory 3,361.75 

Insurance  on  old  church 5,211.49 

Sale  of  materials,  etc 1,999.33 

Debt 7,000.00 

$56,518.15 

REV.  TULLIUS  C.  TUPPER,  D.  D. 

A.  D.  1846-1895.  Rev.  Tullius  C.  Tapper,  D.  D.,  was 
born  in  Canton,  Miss.,  December  6,  1846.  His  parents  were 
of  the  old  Southern  patrician  stock.  His  father,  General 
T.  C.  Tupper,  "whose  name  was  a  household  word  in  Missis- 
sippi," was  a  very  eminent  lawyer  and  one  of  the  most  polished 
and  courtly  men  of  his  State.  He  was  appointed  by  Gov- 
ernor Pettus  and  commissioned  major  general  of  the  Missis- 
sippi State  troops  during  the  Civil  War.       His  wife,  Mrs. 


244  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

Mary  Harding  Drane  Tupper,  was  a  descendant  of  a  leading 
family  in  Southern  Kentucky.  Their  son,  Rev.  Dr.  Tupper, 
was  educated  at  the  University  of  Mississippi,  and  afterwards 
for  the  law,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  soon  after  his  father's 
death,  in  1867.  In  1868-69  he  served  as  clerk  of  the  Circuit 
Court  of  Madison  County,  and  in  the  following  year  resumed 
the  practice  of  law,  forming  a  partnership  with  W.  C.  Cal- 
hoon,  brother  of  the  Hon.  S.  S.  Calhoon,  late  of  the  Supreme 
Court  of  Mississippi.  In  the  latter  part  of  1871  Dr.  T up- 
per, having  fully  decided  to  prepare  himself  for  the  sacred 
ministry,  was  admitted  a  candidate  for  orders  in  that  Diocese, 
and  then  entered  and  pursued  his  theological  studies  at  the 
Xashotah  Theological  Seminary  in  Wisconsin.  In  1873, 

soon  after  the  death  of  his  mother,  he  was  ordained  Deacon, 
and  in  July,  1871,  admitted  to  the  sacred  order  of  Priests  by 
Bishop  Green,  and  assigned  to  an  extensive  field  of  missionary 
work  in  North  Mississippi,  from  which  point  he  was  called  to 
the  pastorate  of  the  Church  of  the  Good  Shepherd,  Memphis, 
Tenn.,  and  in  the  following  year  to  the  charge  of  Christ 
Church,  Little  Rock,  Ark.,  where  he  served  eleven  years.  A 
distinguished  journalist,  now  of  Atlanta,  Ga.,  said  of  him : 
"He  was  not  only  a  pastor  of  Christ  Church  but  a  citizen  in 
every  sense  of  the  word.  He  was  honored  by  the  State  with 
positions  of  trust  connected  with  State  institutions,  and  was 
2  potent  factor  in  all  works  of  charity  in  the  city  of  Little 
Rock.  Everybody  loved  and  honored  him  there,  if  we  may 
judge  from  the  encomiums  heaped  upon  him  by  the  press  of 
the  State  on  his  departure.  He  is  a  classical  scholar,  and  in 
evidence  of  the  appreciation  of  him,  both  within  the  fold  and 
outside  of  his  Church,  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  State 
University  of  Arkansas  conferred  upon  him  honoris  causa  in 
1884,  the  degree  of  doctor  of  divinity.      Since  leaving  Little 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  245 

Rock,  Dr.  Tupper  has  held  important  charges,  both  in  paro- 
chial and  missionary  work,  in  the  Diocese  of  Kansas,  Georgia, 
and  Alabama.  In  July,  1874,  he  was  married  to  Miss 
Imogen  Hicks,  of  Sardis,  Miss.,  a  niece  of  Colonel  John  R. 
Dickens,  who  was  a  colonel  in  the  Confederate  army.  From 
this  union  there  were  born  six  sons  and  four  daughters,  all  of 
whom  are  now  living.  The  eldest  child,  Miss  Mary  Dickens 
Tupper,  was  married  in  1895  to  Professor  Philip  Dudley 
Youngblood,  of  Atlanta,  Ga.,  of  fine  family  lineage,  a  distin- 
guished young  teacher  and  chemist,  both  in  the  public  schools 
and  colleges  of  that  city.  Miss  Viola  Tupper,  the  second 
daughter,  was  married  Xovember  17,  1898,  to  Mr.  Robert 
S.  Barnett,  a  journalist,  of  Mexico  City.  Tullius  C,  the 
eldest  son,  is  engaged  in  railroad  business  with  the  superin- 
tendent of  the  Kansas  City,  Pittsburg  and  Gulf  Railroad ; 
Vernon  S.,  the  second  son,  has  just  entered  the  University  of 
the  South  to  study  for  the  ministry.  The  other  children, 
Clifton  Haywood,  Imogen,  Walter  Vivian,  Rosalind,  La- 
monte,  and  Noland,  are  living  with  their  parents. 

The  following  named  gentlemen,  most  of  whom  have 
gone  to  their  reward,  were  the  Wardens  and  Vestrymen  dur- 
ing the  Rectorship  of  Dr.  Tupper : 

Luke  E.  Barber,  Senior  Warden. 

R.  H.  Parham,  Junior  Warden. 

William  B.  Wait. 

W.  W.  Smith. 

J.  H.  Haney. 

Robert  J.  Matthews. 

William  G.  Whipple. 

Logan  H.  Roots. 

Geo.  H.  Van  Etten. 

Samuel  L.  Griffith. 

P.  K.  Roots. 


246  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

Judge  John  Wassell  was  Junior  Warden  up  to  the  time 
of  his  death,  when  he  was  succeeded  by  Major  R.  H.  Parham. 

William  B.  Wait,  Albert  O'Xeal,  Albert  Wassell,  and 
It.  H.  Parham  were  respectively  treasurers  of  the  parish  dur- 
ing this  Rectorship.  Mrs.  Logan  H.  Roots  and  Miss  Geor- 
gie  Woodruff  were  president  and  treasurer  of  the  Ladies' 
Aid  Society.  Mrs.  Kerr  was  organist.  Mrs.  Whipple,  Mrs. 
Ivatzenberg  (Mandlebaum),  Mrs.  Williams,  Miss  May  Can- 
trell,  Miss  Nellie  Clark,  Major  Smith,  Colonel  W.  G. 
Whipple  were  members  of  the  choir,  the  greater  part  of  the 
time ;  also  Miss  Daisy  Cantrell  and  Miss  Isadore  Cantrell, 
successively.  Colonel  and  Mrs.  Whipple  were  connected 
with  the  choir  for  the  entire  eleven  years.  During  this  time 
the  Sunday  School  was  increased  from  forty  children  to  250 
with  a  good  corps  of  teachers,  with  Colonel  L.  H.  Roots,  suc- 
ceeded by  Major  P.  K.  Roots  as  superintendent,  and  Mrs. 
P.  K.  Roots  as  organist.  During  Dr.  Tupper's  incumbency 
the  Chapel  was  built  and  the  new  Church  edifice  was 
brought  nearly  to  completion.  He  had  held  services  in 
the  Supreme  Courtroom  and  in  the  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce, while  the  Chapel  was  in  course  of  construction. 
All  the  energy  and  enthusiasm  of  the  congregation  were 
brought  to  bear  towards  the  accomplishment  of  this  object. 
Bazaars  were  held,  and  concerts  and  cantatas  were  given  for 
the  purpose.  This  Chapel  was  completed  and  used  for  wor- 
ship for  nine  years.  The  new  Church  gradually  rose  beside 
it,  and  the  last  touches  were  being  added  in  the  way  of  win- 
dews,  and  furniture,  when  Dr.  Tupper  resigned.  Besides 
the  windows  already  described,  there  were  three  in  the  north 
wall  of  the  nave  and  one  in  the  Chancel.  This  was  a  beau- 
tiful representation  of  Christ  blessing  the  little  ones,  with 
fifteen  life-sized  figures.      The  inscription  is  aTo  the  glory 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  247 

of  God  and  memory  of  our  sons,"  by  Logan  H.  and  Emily 
Roots.     The  window  in  the  nave  near  the  south  transept^  rep- 
resents the  resurrection,  with  three  figures,  Christ,  the  Angel, 
and  Roman  soldier.        The  inscription  is   "In  memory  of 
Daniel  Phillips  Upham,    November    18,    1882."        It  was 
donated  by  his  widow.       The  next  is  "In  memory  of  Hugh 
Hogart  Bein,  died  April  18,  1881."     This  represents  Apol- 
los,  "an  eloquent  man  and  mighty  in  the  Scriptures,"  with 
the  angel — two  figures.     Donated  by  the  widow.     The  next 
window,  representing  two  female  figures,   is  inscribed  "In 
loving  memory  of    Albert    Gallatin    Deshon,    February  28, 
1884."     Donated  by  the  widow.     In  the  front  of  the  Church 
and  above  what  was  intended  to  be  used  as  an  organ  loft,  is 
a  beautiful  rose  window,  with  the  Holy  Dove  on  the  wing. 
The  light  coming  through  this  window  is  intercepted  by  an 
organ  loft,  which  is  reached  by  a  staircase  going  up  in  the 
north  side  of  the  vestibule  entrance.       Neither  the  staircase 
nor  the  loft  was  in  the  original  design  of  the  architect,  who 
left  the  space  on  the  south  side  of  the  altar  for  the  organ,  as 
is  usual  in  all  Episcopal  Churches  of  size.     This  space  had 
been  walled  up  for  a  room  by  the  building  committee,  and 
the  organ,  when  taken  from  the  Chapel,  was  set  up  in  the 
organ  loft.     The  Rector,  Rev.  Wallace  Carnahan,    did    not 
approve  of  this,  and,  on  the  Easter  Sunday  marked  by  the 
first   service   in   the   Church,  a  cabinet  organ,  placed  tempo- 
rarily near  the  chancel,  was  used.     The  next  week,  with  con- 
sent of  the  congregation,  the  room  was  torn  away  and  the 
organ  conveyed  from  the  loft  to  the  place  thus  made  vacant, 
where  it  has  since  remained.        In  the    wall   of    the    north 
transept  is  a  large  window,  representing  the  four  evangelists, 
lifesize,  Matthew,  Mark,  Luke,  and  John,  with  their  sym- 
bolic figures,  the  Man,  the  Lion,  the  Ox,  and  the  Eagle,  at 


248  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

their  feet.  This  beautiful  window  was  donated  by  Major 
John  D.  Adams.  It  bears  no  inscription.  The  window 
opposite,  of  the  same  size,  has  been  reserved  for  the  portraits 
of  the  four  Missionary  Bishops,  Polk,  Otey,  Freeman,  and 
Lay,  but  the  funds  collected  by  Mrs.  Sappington,  president 
of  the  Chancel  Guild,  for  that  purpose,  not  proving  to  be  suf- 
ficient for  that  object,  were  devoted  to  a  handsome  eagle 
lectern  in  memory  of  Bishop  Otey  and  two  prayer  desks  in 
memory  of  Bishop  Freeman,  and  Bishop  Polk,  and  a  pulpit 
in  memory  of  Bishop  Lay.  It  is  earnestly  hoped  that  the 
original  idea  may  be  developed  and  the  window  completed, 
which  is  now  merely  stained  in  solid,  light  green.  One  other 
window  in  the  northwest  wall  is  still  unappropriated.  The 
Chancel  walls  to  north  and  south  are  pierced  with  two  rectang- 
ular windows  in  each,  while  in  the  clere-story  of  the  nave 
are  eight  trefoil  windows.  The  altar  table  of  carved  walnut 
was  donated  by  Major  P.  K.  Roots  as  a  "Thank  Offering." 
The  Bishop's  chair  wras  donated  by  Mrs.  John  N".  Jabine  and 
her  sister,  Miss  Georgine  Woodruff.  The  Rector's  chair  was 
donated  by  the  Chancel  Guild.  The  font  and  Bible  were 
donated  by  the  Young  Ladies'  Guild.  The  handsome  vesti- 
bule is  lighted  from  the  south  by  two  rectangular  windows, 
the  staircase  closing  the  north  wall,  originally  designed  for 
two  similar  ones. 

Dr.  Tupper  did  not  remain  to  enjoy  the  fruition  of  his 
eleven  years'  labor.  His  conservatism  had  been  a  rock  of 
refuge  in  this  age  of  radicalism.  Secure  in  the  affections  and 
approbation  of  his  congregation,  which  was  uncompromisingly 
of  Low  Church  principles,  he  had  pursued  "the  even  tenor  of 
his  way,"  making  a  sermon  of  his  life.  The  ceremonial  of  pomp 
and  display  of  vestments  was  not  acceptable  to  the  mass  of 
Episcopalians  in  the  State.   Church  history  may  bear  witness. 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  249 

to  the  usage  of  this  elaborate  ceremonial,  but  the  testimony  of 
the  four  evangelists  and  the  apostles  does  not  show  it  to  have 
been  established  by  the  Divine  Head  of  the  Church  on  earth. 
He  wore  a  distinctive  dress,  it  is  true,  described  by  St.  John 
as  "without  seam,  woven  from  the  top  throughout,"  but  there 
is  no  mention  of  albs,  stoles,  cassocks,  chasubels,  copes,  and 
mitres  in  the  accounts  of  His  priestly  wardrobe.  "The 
breastplate  and  ephod,  the  robe  and  broidered  coat,  a  mitre 
and  girdle  made  of  gold,  of  blue,  of  purple,  of  scarlet,  and 
fine  twined  linen"  may  be  the  right  things  to  wear  in  a  Jew- 
ish tabernacle,  but  are  they  anywhere  prescribed  for  the 
ministers  of  Christ  ? 

Dr.  Tupper  decided  to  accept  a  call  to  Leavenworth, 
Kan.,  which  seemed  to  come  to  him  providentially  in 
a  painful  crisis  of  mental  doubt.  He  announced  his  inten- 
tion of  leaving  for  that  place  and  that  he  would  preach  his 
farewell  sermon  to  his  Little  Rock  parishioners  on  June  6. 
Llis  resignation  took  effect  June  1.  The  farewell  sermon 
was  preached  on  the  first  Sunday  after  Ascension  from  the 
text  "Love  one  another,"  John  xv.  12.  He  left  for  Kansas 
without  his  family,  but  was  recalled  to  conduct  the  burial  ser- 
vices of  the  Senior  Warden,  Luke  E.  Barber,  who  died  on 
Sunday  morning,  the  13th  of  June.  On  the  16th  Dr.  Tup- 
per took  his  departure  for  Kansas,  accompanied  by  his 
family.  The  Church,  which  was  begun  when  he  took  charge 
of  the  parish,  was  finished  outwardly,  but  he  did  not  see  the 
completion  of  the  work  he  had  so  long  overlooked. 

"So  then  neither  is  he  that  planteth  anything,  neither 
he  that  watereth ;  but  God  that  giveth  the  increase." 

At  this  writing,  Dr.  Tnpper  is  in  charge  of  Christ 
Church,  Portsmouth,  Ohio,  where  he  is  most  highly  esteemed. 
An  extract  from  a  Portsmouth  paper  says : 


250  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

Dr.  Tupper  gave  two  excellent  sermons  .at  All  Saints' 
Church.  The  morning  discourse  was  of  the  nature  of  a 
beautiful  lecture  upon  the  thought  "As  he  thinketh  in  his 
heart  so  he  is." 

The  illustration  used  was  Hawthorne's  Intelligence 
Office  and  the  "Book  of  Wishes." 

For  the  evening  sermon  the  text  was  St.  Luke  xix.  12-13. 
"A  certain  nobleman  went  into  a  far  country,  and  he  called 
his  ten  servants  and  delivered  them  ten  pounds  and  said  unto 
them,  occupy  till  I  come." 

This  sermon  was  a  helpful,  earnest  talk. 

Dr.  Tupper's  dignity  and  polished  diction  and  forcible 
gestures  add  much  to  the  strength  of  his  really  fine  sermons. 

The  outlook  for  the  Episcopal  Churches  in  Portsmouth 
is  exceeding  promising. 

Dr.  Tupper  comes  to  us  when  the  weather  is  almost  un- 
bearable, yet  he  has  j^one  about  among  his  people  unceasingly 
and  serenely  as  if  the  mercury  registered  at  the  most  delight- 
ful point.  There  is  hardly  a  member  of  his  congregation 
who  feels  that  Dr.  Tupper  is  a  stranger,  his  sympathies  are 
so  quick  and  his  manner  so  cordial. 

A.  D.  1833-1871.  The  Junior  Warden  who  succeeded 
Luke  E.  Barber  as  Senior  Warden,  during  Dr.  Tupper's  in- 
cumbency was  Richard  Henry  Parham,  son  of  Richard  Hill 
and  Henrietta  Elizabeth  Parham,  who  was  born  in  Sussex 
County,  Va.,  December  18,  1833.  His  ancestors  have  been 
residents  of  Virginia  from  early  colonial  days.  His  grand- 
parents on  his  father's  side  have  been  Methodist  preachers 
in  Virginia  for  more  than  a  hundred  years.  Mr.  Parham's 
ancestors  on  his  father's  side  were  Parhams  and  Hills ;  on 
his  mother's  side,  they  were  Parhams,  Booths,  and  Blands. 
In  1843  his  family  moved  overland  from  Virginia  to  Mar- 
shall County,  Miss.  So  difficult  then  were  means  of  travel 
that  it  took  two  weeks  to  make  the  trip  of  fifty  miles  from 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  251 

their  Mississippi  home  to  Memphis.  The  only  railroad  in 
the  South  was  the  Petersburg  and  Weldon  Railroad.  Mr. 
Parham's  earliest  recollections  are  associated  with  the  cutting 
of  timbers  by  his  father's  negroes  for  the  construction  of  this 
railway. 

Mr.  Parham  was  educated  in  the  elements  of  learning  in 
an  old  field  school,  as  such  schools  were  called  in  those  days. 
In  his  seventeenth  year  he  entered  the  freshman  class  in  the 
University  of  Mississippi  at  Oxford,  and  graduated  in  1854. 

After  leaving  the  university,  Mr.  Parham  taught  school 
occasionally,  but  he  spent  the  greater  part  of  his  time  on  his 
father's  plantation  pursuing  his  favorite  studies.  In  those 
days  he  was  strongly  inclined  to  the  ministry.  Theology  was 
his  favorite  study.  In  1858  he  was  married  to  Ora  C.  Treze- 
vant, daughter  of  Brooks  Robards  Trezevant  and  Rachel 
Godwin  Trezevant,  in  Memphis,  Tenn.  Rt,  Rev.  Bishop 
Otey  performed  the  marriage  ceremony.  Since  marriage, 
Mr.  Parham  has  lived  the  greater  part  of  the  time  in  Little 
Rock,  having  moved  to  that  city  June  28,  1871.  Since  he 
came  to  Little  Rock,  except  the  first  year,  he  has  been  con- 
tinuously engaged  in  teaching.  He  has  two  daughters 
living,  Godwin,  wife  of  Mr.  Gray  Carroll,  and  Ora,  wife  of 
Mr.  Powell  Clayton,  both  of  Little  Rock.  There  are  two 
granddaughters,  Godwin  and  Courtney  Carroll,  and  one 
grandson,  John  Middleton  Clayton. 

Major 'Parham  has  been  a  valuable  and  highly  esteemed 
member  of  Christ  Church  for  many  years,  having  served  in 
the  capacity  of  Secretary,  Junior  and  Senior  Warden.  As 
ho  passes  along  the  decline  of  life,  his  path  is  embellished 
with  the  tempered  sunshine  of  an  approving  conscience  and 
the  flowers  of  good  deeds  done.  He  resigned  the  office  of 
Junior  Warden  to 


252  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

COLONEL  S.  L.  GRIFFITH. 

A.  D.  1818-1866.  Colonel  S.  L.  Griffith  was  born  in 
Harford  County,  Md.,  in  1818,  and  on  attaining  his  majority 
moved  to  Fort  Smith,  Ark.,  in  1839.  He  married  Elizabeth 
Nicks  in  1841.  Of  this  marriage  there  were  two  sons,  John 
Nicks  and  George  Nicks  Griffith,  who  both  died  in  infancy. 
Colonel  and  Mrs.  priffith  moved  to  Little  Rock  in  1866  and 
became  members  of  Christ  Church.  He  was  for  some  years 
a  member  of  the  Vestry  and  was  chosen  Junior  Warden  in 
1885.  He  died  in  Little  Rock  January,  1893,  after  a  long 
and  successful  career  as  a  leading  dry  goods  merchant.  He 
was  a  thoroughly  refined  gentleman,  and  is  affectionately 
remembered  by  his  early  friends.  He  was  buried  in  Mount 
Holly  Cemetery. 

CHRIST    CHURCH    RECTORY. 

A.  D.  1849-1866.  During  the  incumbency  of  Rev. 
Andrew  F.  Freeman  as  Rector  of  Christ  Church  there  was  no 
demand  for  a  Rectory,  as  he,  with  his  father  and  mother, 
lived  in  their  own  residence ;  but  when  Bishop  Lay  succeeded 
to  the  jurisdiction  of  Arkansas  and  also  to  the  office  of  Rector 
of  Christ  Church,  he  saw  the  need  of  one,  and  urged  his  par- 
ishioners to  enter  upon  some  plan  for  erecting  a  home  for 
future  ministers.  The  ''Ladies'  Aid  Society,"  which  was 
organized  at  that  time,  with  Mrs.  Sim  Bostick  president,  and 
Mrs.  Charles  G.  Scott  as  vice  president,  began  to  devise  ways 
and  means  for  collecting  funds  with  this  object  in  view. 

A.  D.  1868-1875.  l'The  Coronation  of  the  Rose  as 
Queen  of  Flowers,'1  a  cantata,  was  presented  at  the  city  hall 
by  fiftv  children  and  young  girls,  in  three  successive  years. 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  253 

The  net  proceeds  of  the  first  presentation  was  $250t  the 
second  $500,  the  third  $400,  whole  amount  $1,150,  the 
receipts  for  which  were  placed  in  the  hands  of  the  treasurer 
of  the  Church,  Mr.  Wm.  B.  Wait.  About  three  years  later 
"The  Twin  Sisters,"  an  operetta,  was  presented  twice;  at 
the  first  the  sum  of  $180  was  netted,  and  at  the  second 
representation  $77.15.  In  1881  another  operetta,  "The 
Miracle  of  the  Roses,"  was  presented  by  children  and 
girls  and  yielded  a  profit  of  $80.  To  this  amount,  $1,437.15, 
a  handsome  sum  was  added  by  the  proceeds  of  two  or  three 
concerts ;  one,  combined  with  a  strawberry  festival,  was  given 
at  the  Dutch  Garden  (situated  in  the  block  bounded  by  Third 
and  Fourth  streets  and  Commerce  and  Sherman),  which 
yielded  a  clear  profit  of  one  thousand  (1,000)  dollars. 
Bazaars  and  suppers  were  also  given  and  the  proceeds  added 
to  this  $1,437.15,  with  which  the  ground  for  the  Bectory 
was  bought.  This  was  located  on  the  corner  of  Seventh  and 
Cumberland  streets.  Mr.  John  E.  Beardon  gave  to  Christ 
Church  a  bond  for  title  on  February  5,  1867,  and  on  August 
11,  1874,  executed  the  deed  for  lots  7,  8,  and  9,  block  28,  in 
the  city  of  Little  Bock,  consideration  $1,866.66.  On  this 
site  the  Rectory  was  built,  fronting  south,  with  four  rooms, 
two  on  each  side  of  a  hall,  at  the  end  of  which  was  a  fifth  room. 
A  back  porch  with  a  storeroom  taken  off  the  east  end,  with  a 
kitchen  and  servant's  room  in  the  backyard,  completed  what 
was  thought  to  be  a  comfortable  cottage.  The  Bev.  B.  G. 
Bobert,  with  his  wife,  four  sons  and  a  daughter,  was  the  first 
Bector  to  occupy  it.  He  had  been  residing  at  the  Crutchfield 
home,  on  Sixth  and  Cumberland  streets,  which  has  since  given 
place  to  two  new  buildings. 

When  Bishop  H.  N".  Fierce  assumed  the  jurisdiction  of 
Arkansas  and  Indian  Territory,  he  was  the  guest  of  Mr.  and 


254  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

Mrs.  Gilbert  Knapp,  on  the  Corner  of  Seventh  and  Rector 
avenue. 

After  Mr.  Robert  resigned  the  Rectorship  of  Christ 
Church  for  that  of  the  Holy  Communion,  in  St.  Louis,  Mo., 
the  Bishop  asked  that  a  second  story  be  added  for  his  use, 
which  was  accordingly  done  by  the  congregation,  and  he  moved 
into  it  with  his  wife,  two  sons  and  two  daughters.  To  this 
building  of  eight  rooms  was  afterwards  added  on  the  west  a 
long  music  room,  opening  by  folding  doors  from  the  parlor, 
to  be  used  for  the  study,  exercise,  and  advancement  of  the 
science  of  music,  to  which  the  Bishop's  family  were  devotees. 
The  expense  incurred  by  the  building  of  this  room  was  covered 
by  the  proceeds  of  concerts  given  by  the  young  people.  It 
was  afterwards  moved  to  the  rear.  Bishop  Pierce  and  family 
occupied  the  Rectory  for  eight  years.  When  they  removed 
to  the  Bishop's  own  residence,  southwest  corner  of  Seventeenth 
and  Spring  streets,  Rev.  T.  C.  Tupper  and  family,  who  had, 
for  about  three  or  four  years,  occupied  a  cottage  on  Rock 
street,  near  Sixth,  took  up  their  abode  at  the  Rectory.  When 
Dr.  Tupper  removed  to  Leavenworth,  Kan.,  the  property  was 
sold  by  the  Vestry  before  mentioned,  to  Mr.  Henry  M.  Cooper, 
recorded  as  follows:  "Lot  E  110,  and  lots  7,  S,  9,  block  28, 
in  the  city  of  Little  Rock,  $3,361.75."  This  hardly 
covered  the  original  outlay.  The  amount  was  added  to 
the  building  fund  of  the  new  Church,  while  the  next  Rector, 
Rev.  Wallace  Carnahan,  was  obliged  to  rent  a  dwelling  house 
until  the  Chapel,  which  had  been  in  use  during  the  last  nine 
years  of  Dr.  Tupper's  ministry,  while  the  Church  was  being 
erected,  was  convex  ted  into  a  Rectorv. 


REV.  WALLACE  CARNAHAN. 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  255 


REV.  WALLACE  CARNAHAK 

A.  D.  1886.  Rev.  Wallace  Carnahan,  who  succeeded 
Rev.  Dr.  T.  C.  Tupper  as  Rector  of  Christ  Church,  at  Little 
Rock,  September  1,  1886,*  is  a  native  of  the  Old  Dominion, 
where  his  birth  occurred  April  18,  1843.  His  father  dying 
when  he  was  8  years  old,  his  mother  moved  with  him  to  New- 
port, Ky.,  and  there  he  received  his  literary  education.  He 
studied  law  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar,  and  afterward  prac- 
ticed for  about  three  years  in  partnership  with  the  late  Hon. 
Thomas  L.  Jones,  member  of  Congress.  At  this  period  of 
his  life  Mr.  Carnahan's  attention  was  drawn  to  the  ministry 
of  the  Episcopal  Church.  He  abandoned  the  bar  and  entered 
upon  the  study  of  theology,  which  he  pursued  under  Bishop 
Smith  and  the  Rev.  John  1ST.  Norton,  D.  D.  He  was  ordained 
to  the  Diaconate  by  Bishop  Smith,  June  9,  1869,  and  ordained 
to  the  Priesthood  by  Bishop  Green  in  1870.  He  spent  the 
first  four  years  of  his  ministry  in  the  Diocese  of  Mississippi, 
and  the  seven  years  that  followed  in  Western  Texas  as  a  mis- 
sionary. From  Texas  he  was  called  to  Grace  Church,  Annis- 
ton,  Ala.,  and  that  parish  was  the  field  of  his  labors  for  six 
years.  From  Alabama  he  was  called  to  Christ  Church,  Little 
Rock,  September  1,  1886.  In  this  Church  Mr.  Carnahan's 
work  has  been  greatly  blessed,  and  he  is  recognized  as  an  able 
ami  eloquent  preacher. 

Rev.  Wallace  Carnahan  was  married  in  Mississippi  to 
Miss  Mary  S.  Hart,  a  daughter  of  Captain  John  D.  Hart,  a 
planter  of  Madison  County,  Miss.  He  is  the  son  of  James 
and  Caroline  (Smith)  Carnahan,  natives  of  Virginia.  The 
grandfather  was  born  in  County  Antrim,  Ireland,  and  was  a 


*See  Biographical  and  Historical  Memoirs  of  Central  Arkansas,  published  in  1889, 
by  the  Goodspeed  Publishing  Co.,  Chicago,  Nashville  and  St.  Louis. 


256  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

noted  Orangeman.  The  mother  was  a  daughter  of  Major 
Henry  Smith,  a  native  of  Maryland,  and  one  of  the  original 
settlers  of  Wheeling,  Va.  Mr.  Carnahan's  maternal  grand- 
father was  a  captain  of  artillery  in  the  Revolutionary  war, 
and  his  services  were  acknowledged  by  an  act  of  Congress. 


Mr.  Carnahan  resigned  the  Rectorship  of  Christ  Church 
on  account  of  failing  health  after  eight  years  of  service,  so 
unremitting,  so  far-reaching  in  the  purification  of  the 
Church  in  Arkansas,  so  helpful  to  the  cause  of  missions,  so 
unprecedented  in  the  financial  prosperity  of  the  Chruch  at 
home  and  throughout  the  Diocese,  so  uplifting  in  the  standard 
of  holiness  in  the  parish,  that  the  unanimous  verdict  of  the 
public  has  been  that  he  stands  unequalled  in  spiritual  fervor 
and  eloquence,  in  culture  and  executive  ability  and  the 
devoted  allegiance  of  his  parishioners,  by  any  Elector  of 
Christ  Church  Parish. 

A.  D.  1887.  In  the  second  year  of  Mr.  Carnahan's 
ministry  he  began  editing  a  Church  paper,  which  was  pub- 
lished by  the  contributions  of  "The  Young  Ladies'  Guild," 
and  was  entitled  successively  according  to  the  expansion  of 
the  subscription  list,  "The  Little  Rock  Churchman,"  "The 
Arkansas  Churchman"  and  "The  Anglo-Saxon  Churchman^ 
the  last  issue  completing  its  third  year  in  December,  1S90, 
after  "three  years  of  steady  progress  in  journalism." 

A.  D.  1891.  We  quote  from  the  May  issue  of  "The 
Anglo-Saxon  Churchman,"  of  1891,  the  following: 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  257 

CHRIST  CHURCH,  LITTLE  ROCK. 

Anticipating  the  publication  of  the  "Year  Book"  of 
Christ  Church,  Little  Rock,  we  give  an  epitome  of  the  statis- 
tics of  the  parish  for  the  five  years  ending  April  30,  1891. 

Baptisms 205 

Confirmations 172 

Marriages 37 

Burials 10a 

CONTRIBUTIONS. 

For  Parochial  objects $55,218.24 

For  Diocesan  objects 953.60 

For  Domestic  Missions 836.33 

For  Foreign  Missions 210.18 

For  other  objects  beyond  the  Diocese 403.60 

Total $57,651.95 

PRESENT   STATUS. 

Families 356 

Souls  (about)    1,700 

Communicants 620 

Sunday  School — teachers,  36,  pupils  (about)  400.  .  .  .     436 

VALUE  OF  CHURCH  PROPERTY. 

Church  edifice  and  grounds $60,000.00 

Rectory  and  grounds 8,500.00 

Mission  Chapel  and  lot 1,500.00 

Total $70,000.00 

OFFICERS   OF  THE   PARISH. 

Rev.  Wallace  Carnahan Rector. 

Rev.  J.  E.  H.  Galbraith Assistant  Minister. 

Major  John  D.  Adams Senior  Warden. 


258  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

Dr.  W.  A.  Cantrell Junior  Warden. 

Major  R.  H.  Parham Secretary. 

Mr.  John  W.  Goodwin Treasurer. 

It  is  proper  to  state  that  the  Rectorship  of  the  Rev.  T.  C. 
Tupper,  D.  D.,  extended  over  a  few  months  of  the  first  of  the 
above  mentioned  years,  and  that  the  following  are  to  be 
credited  to  his  ministry: 

Baptisms   13 

Marriages 

Burials 2 

Contributions  (about) $900.00 

Dr.  Tupper  left  the  parish  with  329  communicants,  and 
the  new  Church  edifice  nearly  completed. 


As  nothing  could  be  so  acceptable  for  accuracy  and  so 
interesting  as  an  exponent  of  the  zeal  and  influence  of  this 
magnetic  preacher,  some  selections  from  his  paper  are  here 
given : 

THE  LITTLE  ROCK  CHURCIIMAX— Vol.    1,   No.   1. 
January,  1888. 

This  little  paper  is  published  by  the  Young  Ladies' 
Guild  of  Christ  Church,  Little  Rock.  It  is  edited  by  the 
Rector  and  the  Assistant  Minister,  Rev.  John  Galbraith.  Its 
object  is  the  stimulation  of  parish  work.  To  that  end  the 
doings  of  the  various  parish  societies  will  be  published,  to- 
gether with  the  Diocesan  news  and  items  of  general  Church 
interest.  Suggestions  for  the  extension  and  advancement  of 
the  work  will  be  offered ;  and,  above  all  things,  true  principles 
and  right  methods  of  work  will  be  inculcated.  Although 
it  is  expected  that  the  circulation  of  the  paper  will  be  chiefly 
amongst  the  Churchmen  of  Little  Rock,  yet  we  shall  be 
pleased  to  receive  subscriptions  from  other  parts  of  the 
Diocese,    and  even  from  "regions    beyond."       We    shall    be 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  259 

grateful  to  our  brethren,  clerical  and  lay,  for  items  of  local 
Church  news.  This  paper  is  not  published  to  make  money. 
If  there  should  be  a  surplus  after  paying  expenses  it  will  be 
given  to  missions. 


Some  of  the  congregation  will  be  glad  to  know  that  the 
temporary  window  in  the  south  transept  is  to  be  tinted,  so 
as  to  soften  the  light  that  comes  through  the  opalescent  glass. 
Better  still,  before  many  months  a  stained  glass  window, 
memorial  of  the  four  Bishops  deceased,  who  have  exercised 
jurisdiction  in  Arkansas,  will  take  the  place  of  the  temporary 
window. 


The  old  parish  Sunday  School,  now  known  as  the  Chapel 
Sunday  School,  is  advancing  in  every  element  of  healthy 
growth.  The  Chapel  is  almost  as  full  as  it  will  hold,  and 
the  instruction  of  the  excellent  teachers  is  more  and  more  ap- 
preciated by  the  scholars. 


The  teachers  in  all  three  of  our  Sunday  Schools  are 
remarkably  capable  and  faithful.  The  Sunday  School  chil- 
dren have  just  sent  $88  for  domestic  missions,  making  $262 
the  Sunday  School  contributed  to  missions  during  the  vear 

1887. 


The  success  of  St.  Paul's  Sunday  School  is  most  cheer- 
ing. It  was  placed  where  it  was  supposed  a  Sunday  School 
was  most  needed.  The  only  available  room  that  could  be 
found  was  a  vacated  barroom.  All  signs  of  the  evil  spirits 
were  removed  and  the  work  was  begun  the  first  Sunday  in 
November.  Over  eighty  scholars  have  been  enrolled,  and  the 
attendance  averages  sixty.  The  only  trouble  is  to  find  room 
for  the  constant  increase.  After  awhile,  God  willing,  we  shall 
have  a  Chapel  in  West  End. 


St.  John's  Sunday  School  (East  End)  was  begun  last 
Sunday,  January  8,  in  Forest  Grove  schoolhouse,  the  use  of 


260  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

which  is  kindly  allowed  us  by  the  city  school  board.  Five 
teachers  and  thirty  scholars  were  in  attendance.  This  is  a 
grand  field  for  loving,  persistent  work.  In  God's  good  time 
we  look  for  the  building  of  St.  John's  Chapel. 


There  has  been  a  marked  improvement  in  the  Church 
music  of  late.  It  is  simple,  devotional  and  Churchly,  and 
well  rendered.  The  congregation  join  in  singing  more  and 
more,  as  they  learn  the  music.  The  organist  is  a  master  of 
the  instrument,  and  the  choir  is  evidently  in  practice. 


The  Christmas  offerings    amounted  to  $187.80.        The 
largest  the  parish  ever  made. 


The  Ladies'  Aid  Society,  the  most  ancient  organization 
in  the  parish,  holds  its  own  steadily.  Besides  keeping  up  its 
building  association  stock,  this  society  has  charge  of  the  parish 
sociables,  arranging,  through  committees,  for  the  musical  and 
literary  features  of  these  delightful  gatherings.  For  fear 
some  reader  outside  Little  Rock  may  suppose  that  our 
sociables  are  entertainments  for  raising  money,  we  must 
explain  that  they  are  monthly  meetings  of  the  adult  members 
of  the  parish  for  social  intercourse  and  the  refining  influence 
of  music  and  literary  exercises.  No  admission  is  charged, 
and  no  collections  are  made.  And  we  may  add  that  in  this 
parish  no  money  is  ever  raised  by  fairs,  suppers,  concerts  or 
any  other  means,  except  direct  giving. 


THE  LITTLE  ROCK  CHURCHMAN. 

February,  1888. 

EASTER  OFFERINGS. 

One  of  the  gems  in  the  crown  of  the  "Queen  of  Festivals" 
is  the  Easter  offering.  The  ideal  offering  for  this  great  day 
is  the  devotion  to  God  of  the  money  value  of  all  our  self- 
denials  of  Lent.       Another  ennobling  motive  finds  expression 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  261 

in  a  thank  offering  at  Easter.  If  you  have  received  a  signal 
token  of  God's  goodness  during  the  past  year,  ask  yourself 
how  thankful  you  are — what  per  cent  of  your  capital  ?  What 
per  cent  of  your  income  ? 

In  this  Diocese  there  is  canonical  offering  on  Easter  day 
for  the  endowment  of  the  Episcopate.  This  will  be  observed 
of  course ;  but  another  offering  will  be  called  for — to  pay  the 
Church  debt.  The  two  objects  will  be  separately  designated 
in  the  check  of  the  contributor,  or  in  envelopes  to  be  used  for 
that  purpose.  When  the  present  Vestry  came  into  office,  last 
spring,  they  found  a  debt  of  $7,000  on  the  parish;  $4,000  of 
it  secured  by  mortgage,  and  paying  10  per  cent  interest,  $3,- 
000  payable  on  demand.  The  Vestry  borrowed  $7,000  at 
8  per  cent  and  paid  off  all  other  debts.  This  loan  was  made 
on  four  years'  time ;  $1,000  due  next  April,  and  $2,000  each 
succeeding  year  until  paid.  The  Vestry  took  the  loan  on 
this  time  out  of  abundant  caution ;  but  with  the  prosperous 
year  we  have  had,  and  the  bright  outlook  for  the  State,  the 
city,  and  the  parish,  there  is  no  need  of  this  delay.  We  can 
pay  off  the  whole  $7,000  this  spring  and  be  done  with  the  in- 
cubus. This  debt  stands  in  the  way  of  so  many  things  that 
we  ought  to  do  that  it  ought  to  be  swept  out  of  the  way.  This 
parish  is  on  the  march,  and  ought  not  to  tolerate  any  impedi- 
ment. After  the  debt  is  paid  we  must  buy  back  those  pews 
that  were  sold,  and  then  all  the  seats  in  Christ  Church  will 
be  made  free.  Then  will  follow  the  establishment  of  the 
parish  hospital,  the  building  of  St.  Paul's  and  St.  John's 
Chapels,  the  Boys'  Academy,  the  enlargement  of  the  Sunday 
School  room,  the  Eectory  and  the  chime  of  bells;  after  that, 
we  shall  contribute  two  or  three  thousand  dollars  a  year  to 
the  fund  for  the  endowment  of  the  Episcopate. 

Now,  we  can't  have  all  that  good  work  hindered  by  this 
pitiful  debt  of  $7,000.  It  is  less  than  $15  apiece  for  the  com- 
municants of  the  parish.  There  are,  to  be  sure,  some  who 
can't  pay  $15,  but  there  are  twice  as  many  who  can  each  pay 
more  than  that.  Let  us  pay  off  the  debt,  have  the  Church 
consecrated,  and  sing  an  ardent  Te  Deum. 

— 18 — 


262  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

KEPORT    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH,    LITTLE    ROCK, 

TO   THE   SIXTEENTH   COUNCIL   OF   THE 

DIOCESE    OF    ARKANSAS. 

From  April  19,  1887,  to  April  11,  1888— 

Number  of  families 331 

Number  of  communicants 508 

Number  of  souls 1,628 

Baptisms — 

Infants 40 

Adults 17 


Total 5 


Confirmations 38 

Marriages 7 

Burials 18 

Sunday  Schools — 

Teachers 41 

Pupils 365 


Total 405 

OFFERINGS. 

PAROCHIAL. 

Salary  of  Rector $  2,332.90 

Rent  of  Rectory 587.50 

Salary  of  assistant  minister  (seven  months) 493.35 

Communion   alms    333.20 

Church  carpet  and  furniture 1,318.00 

Church  building  and  debt 3,804.79 

Insurance  on  Church 498.15 

Other  parish  expenses 1,402.32 

Total $10,770.21 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  263 

DIOCESAN. 

Council  assessment    $  160.00 

Episcopate  fund 72.49 

Diocesan  missions 82.73 

Fund  for  widows  and  orphans  of  deceased  clergy .  .  10.70 

Total $  325.92 

BEYOND  THE  DIOCESE. 

Domestic  Missions — Missionary  box,  $160;  cash, 

$109.09 $  269.09 

Foreign  Missions 100.78 

Society  for  Conversion  of  the  Jews 13.50 

American  Church  Building  Fund 12.60 

New  York  Bible  and  Prayer  Book  Society 10.00 

University  of  the  South 50.00 


Total $      455.97 

Aggregate $11,552.45 

Value  of  Church  property $60,000.00 


A  RETROSPECT. 


This  first  day  of  September  closes  the  second  year  of  the 
present  Rector's  charge  of  Christ  Church,  Little  Rock.  It 
may  be  profitable  for  us  to  reflect  upon  the  outcome  of  these 
two  years  of  work  and  prayer. 

What  have  we — minister  and  laymen — done  ?  and  what 
remains  to  be  done  ?  The  former  is  very  little  indeed,  com- 
pared to  the  latter.  Still  there  is  no  occasion  for  discourage- 
ment. We  think  all  feel  that  these  have  been  eventful  years. 
Perhaps  no  parish  and  no  Rector  ever  had  the  extraordinary 
experience  we  passed  through  during  the  winter  and  spring 
of  1887.      But  we  do  not  wish  to  recall  anything  painful.   On 


264  THE   ANNALS   OF   CHRIST   CHURCH   PARISH. 

Easter  Monday,  1887,  the  Rector's  administration  was  sus- 
tained by  an  overwhelming  majority  of  the  parishioners,  and 
was  again  indorsed  on  Easter  Monday  last  by  a  practically 
unanimous  expression  of  approval  and  affection.  We  believe 
that  this  is  now  one  of  the  most  united  and  harmonious 
parishes  in  the  country. 

Within  these  two  years  our  magnificent  Church  edifice 
has  been  completed,  including  the  finishing  of  the  basement 
for  Sunday  School  rooms.  The  old  Chapel  has  been  recon- 
structed for  a  Rectory,  making  it  one  of  the  most  desirable 
residences  in  the  city.  A  valuable  property — the  Camp- 
bellite  Chapel — has  been  purchased  for  our  West  End  Mis- 
s-ion. So  much  for  the  material  increase,  not  stopping  to 
mention  things  of  minor  value,  like  Chancel  furniture,  the 
organ  for  St.  Paul's,  the  bank  safe  for  the  parish  office,  etc. 
But  Ave  must  add  to  things  material  the  total  of  money  raised 
in  the  parish  for  Church  work,  building  and  debt,  amounting 
to  over  $23,000. 

Far  more  important  than  the  above  mentioned  signs  of 
progress,  is  the  record  of  living  increase.  During  this  same 
time  eighty  persons  have  been  baptized  and  sixty-four  con- 
firmed ;  the  list  of  communicants  has  increased  from  329 
to  532,  the  average  attendance  at  the  Sunday  services  has 
doubled,  and  the  number  of  Sunday  School  pupils  has  nearly 
quadrupled ;  in  the  way  of  increased  organizations,  two  mis- 
sion Sunday  Schools  have  been  started,  and  one  of  them  has 
proved  remarkably  successful.  The  Young  Ladies'  Guild 
lias  been  reorganized  for  the  special  work  of  supporting  the 
assistant  minister,  and  conducting  the  Little  Rock  Church- 
man ;  a  chapter  of  St.  Andrew's  Brotherhood  has  been  formed 
for  work  amongst  young  men ;  a  missionary  society,  composed 
of  the  communicants  of  the  Church,  has  been  made  the  very 
heart  of  the  parish;  and  monthly  sociables  are  held  for  social 
intercourse  and  the  enjoyment  of  music  and  literature.  Be 
it  noted  that  these  sociables  are  not  used  to  raise  money,  the 
whole  system  of  fairs,  suppers,  concerts,  et  id  omne  genus  for 
bribing  people  to  serve  God,  having  been  religiously  abandoned 
two  vears  affo. 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  265 

But  after  all,  these  signs  of  improvement  that  can  be  put 
into  figures  and  minutes  of  meetings,  are  not  the  most  signifi- 
cant elements  of  parochial  prosperity;  the  spirituality  of  a 
parish  is  not  susceptible  of  statistical  statement,  but  for  all 
that  it  is  the  real  life  of  a  parish,  without  which,  all  other 
signs  of  vitality  are  as  the  contortions  of  a  galvanized  corpse. 
We  are  almost  afraid  to  speak  of  improvement  in  this  regard, 
yet  we  think  it  not  wrong  to  say  that  there  has  been  a  marked 
elevation  of  the  religious  tone  of  the  parish. 

We  know  there  was  a  strong  element  of  spirituality  in 
the  parish  two  years  ago,  but  we  know  also  that  the  predomi- 
nant character  of  the  parish  at  that  time  was  a  reproach  to 
Christianity.  But  let  all  that  pass,  it  makes  one  heartsick 
to  remember  it.  Thank  God,  it  is  no  longer  prima  facie  evi- 
dence that  a  person  has  no  religion  to  belong  to  Christ  Church, 
Little  Rock.  We  do  not  boast  of  these  things ;  we  allude  to 
these  tokens  of  God's  blessing  on  the  labors  of  minister  and 
people  only  to  thank  Him  for  His  mercy  and  goodness,  and  as 
an  incentive  to  better  work  in  the  future.  What  is  that  work 
for  the  future  ?  First  of  all  duties,  we  must  raise  our  stan- 
dard of  personal  holiness  still  higher,  and  as  a  part  of  the 
means  to  that  blessed  end,  as  well  as  a  regard  for  the  direct 
objects  of  Christian  duty,  we  must  pay  off  the  balance  of  that 
wretched  debt;  we  must  build  a  Chapel  for  St,  John's  Mis- 
sion ;  we  must  organize  a  Sunday  School  in  Argenta  ;  we  must 
establish  a  Church  school  to  prepare  boys  for  college ;  we  must 
build  and  endow  a  hospital,  and  we  must  raise  $10,000  as 
our  share  of  the  Episcopate  fund. 

After  that  we  shall  find  plenty  more  to  do.  In  the  mean- 
time let  us  thank  God  that  we  are  a  united  band,  full  of  hope 
and  courage. 


The  Chancel  Society  is  doing  its  sacred  work  diligently 
and  with  reverence  and  good  taste.  The  arrangements  for 
the  celebration  of  the  Holy  Communion  and  the  care  of  the 
vestments  show  that  this  society  deserves  the  injunction,  "Let 
all  things  be  done  decently  and  in  order." 


266  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

The  sociables  suspended  during  Lent  will  be  resumed. 
The  next  will  be  held  on  Thursday  night,  19th  of  April. 
There  were  nearly  100  in  attendance  at  the  last  sociable,  but 
we  hope  to  see  three  times  that  many  after  all  our  members 
learn  how  delightful  these  gatherings  are. 


The  Vestry  have  had  several  interesting  meetings  during 
the  past  month.  They  are  doing  their  part  nobly  in  the 
matter  of  the  Church  debt,  and  if  the  whole  $7,000  is  not  paid 
off  at  Easter  it  will  not  be  their  fault.  The  Rector  takes  this 
occasion  to  thank  the  Vestry  for  their  cordial  and  generous 
support  during  the  past  year. 


The  choir  has  laid  the  congregation  under  obligations  for 
good  Church  music.  We  do  not  mean  to  say  that  it  "tickles 
the  ears  of  the  groundlings,"  nor  do  we  claim  that  it  is  "equal 
to  a  show."  We  say  it  is  good  Church  music;  that  is  to  say, 
the  congregation  is  led  in  devout  praise,  skillfully  and 
reverently. 


The  Young  Ladies'  Guild  are  doing  good,  solid  work. 
Besides  doing  all  the  clerk  work  of  the  Little  Rock  Church- 
man, they  raise  over  $500  a  year  towards  the  current  expenses 
of  the  parish,  not  counting  such  little  things  as  the  $45  chair 
which  they  have  just  bought  for  the  Chancel.  The  Rector 
hopes  that  the  young  ladies  may  not  work  themselves  to  death. 


The  Vestry  of  Christ  Church  is  certainly  one  of  varied 
elements ;  amongst  the  eleven  Vestrymen,  eight  vocations, 
both  political  parties  and  three  shades  of  Churchmanship  are 
represented.  Xotwithstanding  these  differences,  they  are 
a  unit  in  their  love  of  the  Church,  their  devotion  to  the  in- 
terests of  the  parish,  and  their  cordial  support  of  the  Rector. 


The  Ladies'  Aid  Society,  at  their  last  meeting,  resolved 
to  use  the  funds  now  in  hand,  some  $150,  to  pay  for  the  cover- 
ing and  cushioning  of  the  kneeling  stools,  as  soon  as  the  work 
iQ  completed.       The  missionary  box  which  they  are  preparing 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  267 

for  a  missionary  in  Western  Texas  is  coming  on  finely.  This 
venerable  society  has  taken  on  new  life.  We  feared  at  one 
time  that  their  purchasing  the  carpet  (it  cost  $1,125)  had 
exhausted  the  Ladies'  Aid  Society. 


The  Missionary  Society  is  a  thoroughly  organized,  com- 
pact body;  there  is  a  steady  advance  all  along  the  line. 
Through  the  labors  of  the  members  of  this  society  objects  of 
charity  are  relieved,  new  Church  families  are  found  and 
visited,  and  strangers  haying  no  ecclesiastical  belonging  are 
brought  under  religious  influence.  Besides  an  interest  in 
Diocesan,  Domestic  and  Foreign  Missions  is  constantly  culti- 
vated. The  monthly  dues  are  50  cents  for  men,  20  cents  for 
married  ladies,  and  10  cents  for  single  ladies,  which  are 
devoted  to  missions.  Every  communicant  of  the  parish  ought 
to  belong;  to  this  societv. 


The  Sunday  Schools  are  doing  remarkably  well.  The 
Rector  catechises  each  in  turn ;  St.  John's  on  the  second  Sun- 
day in  the  month,  the  Chapel  Sunday  School  on  the  third 
Sunday,  and  St.  Paul's  on  the  fourth.  The  last  catechising 
elicited  unmistakable  evidence  of  good  work  on  the  part  of  the 
officers  and  teachers.  The  three  Sunday  Schools  will  have 
their  annual  festival  at  Christ  Church  on  Easter  evening  at 
4  o'clock.  St.  Paul's  will  occupy  the  north  transept,  St. 
John's  the  south  transept,  and  the  Chapel  Sunday  School  the 
front  of  the  nave.  The  congregation  will  be  welcome  to  the 
rear  of  the  nave.  We  think  the  exercises  will  be  interesting 
to  young  and  old. 


May,  1888. 


PARISH  DOINGS. 

The  Easter  offerings  amounted  to  $2,259,  which  is  pretty 
good ;  but  next  Easter  we  shall  more  than  double  that. 


268  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

The  Chancel  Society  deserves  great  credit  for  its  ex- 
quisite decoration  of  the  Church  for  Easter;  and  the  regu- 
larity with  which  all  its  work  is  done,  all  the  more  acceptable 
because  not  overdone. 


A  few  weeks  ago  the  parish  had  the  honor  of  a  visit  from 
Archdeacon  Fortin,  of  Winnipeg,  Manitoba.  The  Rector 
begged  him  to  occupy  the  pulpit  whilst  here,  but  his  health 
would  not  permit.  

The  Guild  is  as  "busy  as  a  bee-hive ;"  it  is  making  a  suc- 
cess of  the  Little  Rock  Churchman,  and  is  preparing  to  do  a 
larger  work  than  ever,  of  which  many  will  hear  very  soon. 
No  work  in  the  parish  has  borne  better  fruit  than  that  of  the 
Young  Ladies'  Guild. 


The  Ladies'  Aid  Society  paid  off  the  debt  for  the  kneel- 
ing stools,  about  $150,  and  finished  and  shipped  "the  box" 
for  the  missionary  in  Texas.  We  verily  believe  the  prepara- 
tion of  that  box  did  our  ladies  as  much  good  as  the  contents 
of  the  box  will  do  the  missionary  and  his  family. 


The  choir  is  constantly  improving.  Our  music  on 
Easter  day  was. most  appropriate  and  edifying.  We  have 
never  heard  music  in  Church  that  so  thoroughly  fulfilled  the 
purpose  of  Church  music — to  lift  up  the  heart  in  gratitude  to 
God.  The  show  feature  was  severely  absent.  Of  the  800 
or  1)00  souls  that  crowded  the  Church,  we  hope  not  one  came 
to  be  entertained.  

The  organist  at  the  first  service  held  in  the  new  Church 
on  Easter  day,  1887,  was  Professor  Brebegh.  The  choir 
was  composed  of  Miss  Marye  Rumbough,  Miss  Bessie  Can- 
trell,  Miss  Sophie  Field  (Mrs.  Andrew  Hunter),  Miss  Susie 
Carroll,  sopranos;  Miss  Hallie  Jabine  (Mrs.  Sayle),  Miss 
Georgie  Woodruff  and  Miss  Nannie  Field,  altos;  Messrs. 
George  Martin,  D.  H.  Cantrell  and  Dunbar  Pope,  tenors ; 
Messrs.  Henry  Maxwell,  and  Otey  Clark,  bassos. 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  269 

We.  congratulate  the  parish  upon  the  re-election  of  the 
Vestry  on  Easter  Monday.  It  is  evident  that  the  congrega- 
tion is  practically  unanimous  in  the  opinion  that  the  affairs 
of  the  parish  are  in  good  hands.  Certainly  it  is  a  good  spec- 
tacle— a  Vestry  of  eleven  devout  Christians,  exemplary  citi- 
zens, and  everyone  the  warm,  personal  friend  of  the  Rector. 
Happy  is  the  parish  and  happy  is  the  Rector  thus  situated. 


By  far  the  most  successful  sociable  we  have  yet  had  was 
that  of  the  19th.  We  never  saw  a  large  company  (there  were 
about  100  present)  seem  to  enjoy  rational  and  wholesome 
pleasure  more  thoroughly.  When  these  sociables  were  pro- 
posed some  predicted  their  failure.  "Who  ever  heard,"  some 
said,  "of  a  Church  sociable  not  intended  for  raising  money?" 
Others  remarked,  '"The  idea  of  a  party  without  either  danc- 
ing or  refreshments !"       Well,  strange  things  do  happen. 


St.  Andrew's  Brotherhood  is  steadily  growing  in  mem- 
bership and  interest.  The  formation  of  another  chapter  of 
older  young  men  is  talked  of.  This  society  meets  every 
Tuesday  night  in  the  parish  office.  A  passage  of  Scripture 
is  studied,  a  portion  of  some  literary  work  is  read  and  dis- 
cussed, and  then  the  members  engage  in  conversation  about 
the  work  of  the  society — that  is,  inducing  young  men  to  come 
to  Church.  There  is  no  cant,  no  humbug,  no  axe-grinding 
about  the  Brotherhood. 


The  Sunday  School  festival  on  Easter  evening  was  pro- 
nounced a  success.  There  were  nearly  400  children.  When 
the  Mission  Sunday  Schools  marched  in,  150  strong,  there 
was  some  surprise  and  much  joy  amongst  some  of  the  old 
folks,  who  "didn't  know  that  this  work  amounted  to  much." 

As  each  class  came  up  and  planted  its  banner  and  pre- 
sented its  offerings,  all  felt  that  this  work  had  been  blessed. 
Each  banner  had  a  letter  on  it,  these  letters,  when  placed, 
making  the  sentence,  "Children  of  God,  being  children  of  the 
resurrection." 


270  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

The  Rector  is  very  grateful  to  the  officers  and  teachers 
for  their  faithful  year's  work. 

The  building  of  those  Chapels  is  now  in  order.  We  think 
we  know  the  names  of  the  two  men  who  are  going  to  give  us 
lots  to  build  them  on. 


March,  1888. 

THE  BROTHERHOOD  OF  ST.  ANDREW. 

The  society  known  as  the  Brotherhood  of  St.  Andrew,  is 
making  rapid  advances  in  the  increase  of  its  numbers  and  in 
the  good  work  accomplished.  This  is  an  organization  of  young 
men  in  the  Church  for  the  purpose  of  inducing  young  men  to 
attend  Church,  and  for  the  mutual  improvement  of  the  mem- 
bers. The  assistant  minister  of  Christ  Church  proposes  to 
organize  a  "chapter"  of  this  society  in  Little  Rock.  We 
heartily  commend  the  movement. 


THE    VESTRY   ELECTION. 

On  Easter  Monday,  April  2,  the  annual  election  for 
Vestrymen  of  Christ  Church  will  be  held.  The  present  efficient 
Vestry  ought  to  be  re-elected.  They  are  all  good  men  and 
faithful  to  their  trust.  There  is  perfect  harmony  between  all 
the  members  of  the  Vestry  and  the  Rector.  Mutual  confi- 
dence and  mutual  support  have  characterized  every  meeting 
and  every  act,  and  as  a  consequence  the  parish  has  enjoyed 
unprecedented  prosperity,  temporal  and  spiritual. 

The  income  of  the  parish  since  this  Vestry  came  into 
office  last  Easter  Monday  has  been  $5,087.  This  does  not 
include  $1,125  paid  by  the  Ladies'  Aid  Society  for  the  carpet, 
about  $400  raised  by  the  Young  Ladies'  Guild,  about  $50  con- 
tributed by  the  Missionary  Society,  and  the  Sunday  School 
offerings,  amounting  to  over  $200.  The  Easter  offerings  will 
add  several  thousand  dollars  to  the  year's  income.     Of  the 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  271 

$5,087  already  received,  parish  expenses  consumed  $3,557; 
the  balance,  $1,530,  was  expended  on  the  Church  edifice  and 
grounds,  the  interest  on  the  debt. 

The  financial  success  of  the  parish  is  largely  due  to  the 
efficiency  of  the  treasurer,  Major  John  D.  Adams. 

If  the  congregation  want  this  Vestry  to  serve  another  year 
they  ought  to  come  out  Easter  Monday  and  say  so.  We  give 
the  names  of  the  Vestry  below : 

R.  H.  Parham,  Jr. 

W.  W.  Smith. 

John  D.  Adams. 

Dr.  W.  A.  Cantrell. 

R.  L.  Goodrich. 

Dr.  L.  R.  Stark. 

R.  J.  Polk. 

G.  S.  Brack. 

C.  H.  Dolbeer. 

F.  D.  Clark. 

J.  H.  Haney. 


"HONOR  TO  WHOM  HONOR  IS  DUE." 

The  parish  owes  a  debt  of  gratitude  to  Major  John  D. 
Adams  and  Mr.  R.  L.  Goodrich  for  liberal  contributions  to 
objects  outside  the  regular  expenses  of  the  parish.  Their 
offerings  are  always  made  with  the  characteristic  modesty  of 
gentlemen.  No  parade,  no  trumpeting,  no  bargaining  for 
adulation  and  advertisement. 


The  Rectory  rapidly  approaches  completion ;  the  Rector 
expects  to  move  into  it  the  1st  of  October.  In  the  next  num- 
ber of  the  Churchman  we  shall  give  a  description  of  the  house. 


The  parish  is  under  obligations  to  Major  R.  H.  Parham 
for  his  faithful  services  as  lay  reader,  especially  during  the 
Rector's  vacation.  Only  an  experienced  clergyman  knows 
how  to  appreciate  a  character  like  Major  Parham's. 


272  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

May,  1888. 

The  assistant  minister  of  Christ  Church,  Rev.  John  E. 
H.  Galbraith,  has  organized  a  chapter  of  St.  Andrew's 
Brotherhood.  The  study  of  the  Bible,  mutual  improvement, 
and  a  Christian  influence  amongst  young  men  are  the  objects 
of  this  society.     Most  commendable. 


August,  1888. 

CHRIST   CHURCH,   LITTLE   ROCK. 

An  assistant  minister  has  been  called,  but  has  not  yet 
accepted.      It  will  be  hard  to  fill  Mr.  Galbraith's  place. 


The  sociables  and  the  meetings  of  the  Ladies'  Aid  Society 
and  St.  Andrew's  Brotherhood  are  suspended  until  October, 
but  the  Missionary  Society,  the  Vestry,  the  Guild,  and  Chan- 
cel Society  are  like  Tennyson's  brook. 


The  basement  of  the  Church  being  finished,  was  occupied 
by  the  Parish  Sunday  School  for  the  first  time  on  the  2 2d  of 
July.  There  is  one  large  comfortable  room  opening  into  the 
cosy  parish  office,  which  will  be  used  for  the  infant  class. 
These  rooms  are  a  solid  improvement  upon  the  old  Chapel. 


During  the  past  few  weeks  there  has  been  quite  an  exodus 
of  Christ  Church  people  to  the  mountains  and  the  sea  shore. 
The  attendance  at  the  services  has  consequently  fallen  off. 
The  largest  congregation  in  July  numbered  only  about  four 
hundred. 


The  construction  of  the  Rectory  is  going  forward  satis- 
factorily. When  completed  it  will  be  one  of  the  most  com- 
modious and  pleasant  residences  in  the  city. 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  273 

ST.  PAUL'S  MISSION. 

Our  West  End  Mission  has  now  a  local  habitation,  as 
well  as  a  name.  The  building  once  used  by  the  Disciples  of 
Christ  (commonly  called  Campbellites)  as  a  house  of  worship 
has  been  bought  and  is  now  St.  Paul's  Mission  Chapel.  The 
title  of  the  property  is  vested  in  the  Vestry  of  Christ  Church, 
but  will  be  conveyed  to  the  future  Vestry  of  St.  Paul's  when 
the  mission  becomes  a  parish,  which  evolution  the  Rector  and 
Vestry  will  cordially  encourage.  The  situation  of  this 
chapel  is  admirably  adapted  for  the  work  it  is  designed  to  do. 
It  is  removed  about  as  far  as  possible  from  any  other  house 
of  worship,  and  begins  its  work  on  this  spot  with  a  good 
nucleus  carried  there  from  the  old  temporary  quarters  of  the 
mission.  Those  quarters  had  been  a  barroom — one  of  those 
"terrors  to  the  neighborhood" — it  now  becomes  a  drug*  store. 
So  we  have  converted  this  building  as  well,  we  trust,  as  some 
of  those  who  came  to  our  ministrations. 


September.  1889. 
THE    ARKANSAS    CHURCHMAN. 

The  anniversary  of  the  beginning  of  a  minister's  work 
seems  to  be  a  favorite  time  for  review  of  the  past.  The 
present  Rector  of  Christ  Church  took  charge  of  the  parish 
September  1,  1886.  During  these  three  years  the  Church 
edifice  has  been  finished,  the  Sunday  School  room  made  ready 
for  use,  and  the  Rectory  constructed;  113  persons  have  been 
baptized,  and  120  have  been  confirmed;  the  net  increase  of 
communicants  is  228,  the  average  congregation  has  trebled, 
and  the  offerings  have  amounted  to  over  $35,000.  The  parish 
is  united,  active  and  growing. 

How  different  the  outcome  of  these  three  years  of  the 
"new  regime"  has  been  from  what  was  predicted  by  some 
people  who  did  not  know  that  the  Episcopal  Church  taught 
rcliqion. 


274  THE    ANNALS    OP    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

What  a  storm  was  raised  when  the  new  Rector  did  away 
with  the  fantastic  show  business  in  the  choir,  put  a  stop  to 
suppers,  lotteries  and  fandangoes  as  means  of  raising  money 
for  the  Church,  and  preached  the  necessity  of  piety  in  Church 
members.  Many  people  predicted  that  "if  the  Rector  went 
on  with  these  novelties  he  would  soon  be  preaching  to  empty 
pews,  and  have  no  salary." 

Thank  God,  that  horrid  nightmare  of  irreligion  in  Christ 
Church  is  past.  No  one  now  speaks  of  this  parish  as  a 
"social  club  for  Sunday  amusement." 


ARKANSAS    CHURCHMAN. 

October,  1888. 

The  hour  for  the  meetings  of  the  Guild,  the  Ladies'  Aid 
Society  and  the  Sunday  School  Officers  and  Teachers,  is 
changed  from  5  p.  m.  to  4:30  p.  m.,  and  the  meetings  of  the 
Chancel  Society  from  4:30  p.  m.  to  4  p.  m.  See  list  of 
meetings. 


On  Sunday,  September  16,  St.  John's  Mission  was  re- 
opened in  the  new  quarters,  on  the  corner  of  Tenth  and  Welch 
streets.  The  following  Sunday  there  were  seven  teachers 
and  forty-five  pupils  present ;  and  a  most  cheering  interest 
was  manifested. 


Mr.  E.  M.  Humphreys  has  become  assistant  to  the  Rec- 
tor of  Christ  Church.  Mr.  Humphreys  is  a  Sewanee  man, 
and  was  a  postulant  for  holy  orders  in  the  Diocese  of  Tennes- 
see, but  has  been  transferred  to  this  Diocese,  and  hopes  soon 
to  be  ordained.*  Our  young  brother  gives  promise  of  great 
usefulness  in  the  mission  work,  of  which  he  has  already  taken 
vigorous  hold.  The  man  who  fills  John  Galbraith's  place 
has  no  sinecure. 


*Mr.  Humphreys1  health  compelled  him  to  resign  the  office.      He  died  not  long 
after. 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  275 

The  Rector  wishes  to  express  his  grateful  appreciation 
of  the  consideration  and  liberality  of  the  Vestry  in  the  con- 
struction of  the  new  Rectory.  They  have  faithfully  carried 
out  the  loving  wishes  of  the  congregation.  Particular  thanks 
are  due  the  building  committee — -Major  J.  D.  Adams,  Mr. 
C.  H.  Dolbeer,  and  Captain  J.  H.  Haney — and  more  espe- 
cially Captain  Haney,  who  has  given  his  time  and  skill  to 
the  planning  and  supervision  of  the  work. 


The  Sociables  will  hereafter  be  held  on  the  same  night 
upon  which  the  Missionary  Society  meets. 


Allusion  to  the  gratuitous  services  of  Captain  J.  H. 
Haney,  in  the  building  of  the  new  Rectory,  recalls  the  testi- 
mony of  the  building  committee  of  the  Church  edifice  in  these 
words : 

"Mr.  J.  H.  Haney  for  five  years  has  superintended  the 
work  on  the  building;  seen  that  everything  was  done  in 
accordance  with  contract  and  specifications;  rendering  ser- 
vices that  have  certainly  lessened  the  cost  of  the  building  10 
per  cent  with  a  faithfulness  and  love  of  the  work  which  it 
would  be  impossible  to  hire." 

Captain  Haney  has  given  to  the  Church  during  the  past 
seven  years  at  least  $5,000  worth  of  services  as  civil  engineer 
and  architect,  which  is  more  than  any  one  cash  contribution 
to  our  Church  buildings,  and  in  ratio  to  his  financial  ability, 
ten  times  as  much  as  anyone  else  has  given. 

The  most  beautiful  feature  of  all  of  Captain  Haney's 
valuable  service  is  the  fact  that  it  has  all  been  rendered  with 
the  utmost  modesty  and  delicacy,  as  if  it  were  all  quite  a 
matter  of  course  and  called  for  no  praise. 


Christ  Church,  Little  Rock,  has  now  a  home  for  its 
Rector,  the  new  Rectory  being  completed.  The  outside  ap- 
pearance is  quaint  and  unpretentious,  giving  very  little  idea 
of  the  beautiful  and  commodious  interior.       Passing;  a  wide 


276  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

gallery,  running  the  whole  length  of  the  front,  one  enters 
through  a  heavy  panelled  door,  the  reception  room,  which  is 
lighted  by  two  windows  of  ground  glass,  bordered  with  tinted 
cathedral  glass,  and  separated  from  the  stairway  hall  by  an 
arch  supported  by  corbels. 

To  the  right  is  the  beautiful  drawing-room,  having 
double  sliding  doors  opening  from  the  reception-room,  and 
likewise  into  the  study,  which  comes  next.  The  study  is  a 
room  to  suggest  sermons  on  Paradise ;  the  door  opening  from 
the  hall  intimates  that  it  is  meant  to  be  easily  accessible. 
Behind  the  study  is  the  pretty  guest  room,  which  the  Rector 
hopes  to  have  frequently  occupied.  Beyond  this  point  the 
house  widens,  and  the  hall,  turning  to  the  right,  runs  between 
the  elegantly  finished  dining-room  and  a  large,  well-lighted 
chamber,  behind  which  is  the  bathroom,  with  hot  and  cold 
water  attachments.  Across  a  back  hall  are  two  more  com- 
fortable bedrooms,  surrounded  by  wide  latticed  galleries, 
upon  which  the  dining-room  also  opens,  and  connecting  with 
storeroom,  kitchen  and  servants'  room,  below  which  are  rooms 
for  fuel.  Returning  to  the  main  hall,  we  ascend  by  an  artis- 
tic stairway  to  the  second  floor.  Here  we  find  two  pleasant 
rooms,  well  lighted  and  ventilated.  A  china  closet,  a  linen 
closet,  and  numerous  wardrobes  complete  this  model  par- 
sonage. 


Here  is  a  general  quotation  from  the  Diocesan  paper 
called  The  Diocese  of  Arkansas,  edited  by  Rev.  Mr.  Degen, 
Rector  of  St.  John's  Church,  Fort  Smith,'  Ark.,  1888: 

CHRISTMAS    IN    ARKANSAS. 

"The  glorious  Feast  of  the  Nativity  was  celebrated  in  all 
the  parishes  and  missions  of  the  Diocese  with  even  more  than 
usual  care  and  elaborate  preparations."      *     *     * 

"At  Christ  Church,  Little  Rock,  the  usual  Sunday  ser- 
vices were  held,  the  Chancel  being  appropriately  dressed.  The 
Sunday  School  festival  was  held  in  the  Chapel  on  the  Feast  of 
the  Holy  Innocents.  We  clip  the  following  account  of  it 
from  the  Arkansas  Life  : 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  277 

"At  the  Chapel  of  Christ  Church  last  Wednesday,  at  6 
p.  in.  there  was  a  threefold  feast  presented  for  eye,  ear  and 
palate.  A  large  number  of  spectators  with  the  children  and 
teachers  were  seated  in  the  part  of  the  room  near  the  entrance. 
An  open  space  beyond  was  reserved  for  games,  and  at  the 
extreme  end  on  a  low  platform  were  arranged  four  tables  ex- 
tending the  entire  width  of  the  room,  from  north  to  south. 
These  tables  were  tastefully  laid  out  with  dainty  napery, 
china  and  glass,  and  bountifully  supplied  with  cakes,  jellies, 
creams,  fruits  and  nuts.  The  happy  faces,  the  sheen  of  light 
on  the  crimson  carpet  and  the  warmth  aroused  a  pleasant  sen- 
sation among  the  assembly.  The  exercises  opened  with  a 
Christmas  hymn,  Miss  Harrell  presiding  at  the  organ,  after 
which  the  Rev.  Mr.  Galbraith,  superintendent,  made  a  happy 
extempore  address.  The  Rector,  the  Rev.  Mr.  Carnahan, 
then  read  a  poem  from  the  Rev.  Phillips  Brooks,  sent  to  him 
by  an  absent  teacher.  The  classes  were  called  in  order  by 
the  Rector  and  conducted  to  the  tables  for  the  feast,  the  infant 
classes  first  who  afforded  a  charming  picture  as  their  cherub 
faces  appeared  just  above  the  surface  of  the  tables.  A  staff 
of  teachers,  Miss  Georgie  Woodruff,  Miss  Merrick,  Misses- 
Matthews,  Misses  Carroll,  Misses  Field,  and  Mrs.  Hayman, 
served  in  dainty  white  aprons,  supplying  150  children  with  a 
delicious  supper.  After  these  were  all  satisfied  the  adults 
were  invited  by  the  Rector  to  partake.  Afterwards  "the 
basketsfull"  were  set  aside  to  be  distributed  to  the  sick  and 
destitute  the  next  day.  Gaines  followed,  and,  though  there 
was  an  exuberance  of  glee,  there  was  no  breach  of  decorum. 
At  9  o'clock  all  dispersed,  feeling  that  the  festival  had  been 
no  misnomer,  but  a  joyful  anniversary  to  all  in  attendance. " 


January,  1889.       , 
DIOCESAN  NEWS. 

CHRIST   CHURCH,   LITTLE   ROCK. 

Christmas  and  Christmas  week  were  filled  with  joy  and 
brightness  in  this  parish.    The  service  on  Christmas  morning 


278  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

was  well  attended  by  devout  worshippers,  attracted  not  by 
advertisements,  nor  by  shows,  nor  by  any  shifty  vanities,  but 
by  the  manifest  desire  to  worship  God  and  hear  His  word 
preached. 

Thursday  the  children  of  the  three  Sunday  Schools  had 
their  festival  in  the  basement  of  the  Church,  and  they  had  a 
"grand  time." 

On  Friday  St.  John's  Mission  had  their  Christmas  tree, 
which  proved  to  be  wonderfully  fruitful  of  presents,  sweet- 
meats and  delight. 

St.  Paul's  Mission  Sunday  School  had  their  festival  on 
Saturday,  and  matched  St.  John's  in  all  manner  of  innocent 
pleasure  for  the  children. 

The  Rev.  Mr.  Galbraith  and  the  devoted  officers  and 
teachers  of  the  three  schools  deserve  much  praise  for  their 
faithful  labors  in  these  nurseries  of  the  Church. 


Besides  the  parish  and  mission  work,  Mr.  Carnahan  and 
Mr.  Galbraith  laid  the  foundation  for  a  Church  school  for 
boys,  called  Christ  Church  Academy,  January,  1889,  corner 
of  Fifth  and  Scott  streets.  Prepares  boys  for  college  or 
business.  Rev.  Wallace  Carnahan,  principal ;  Rev.  J.  E.  H. 
Galbraith,  teacher  of  Latin  and  Greek;  Mr.  Palin  Saxby, 
teacher  of  English  and  the  sciences.  The  school  work  begun 
by  the  Rev.  Mr.  Galbraith  last  September  is  now  to  be  en- 
larged and  strengthened.  The  purpose  is  to  build  up  an 
academic  institution  in  Little  Rock  upon  the  model  of  the 
Episcopal  High  School  at  Alexandria,  Va.,  which  Professor 
L.  M.  Blackford  has  made  so  famous.  Tuition,  $15  per 
quarter  (three  calendar  months).  For  admission  apply  at 
the  Rectory,  No.  509  Scott  street,  Little  Rock,  Ark. 


ARKANSAS  CHURCHMAN". 

April,  1889. 

Apropos  of  the  offerings  on  Easter  day  being  devoted  to 
the  Church  debt,  a  few  words  of  explanation  may  not  be  amiss, 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH  279 

especially  as  efforts  seem  to  have  been  made  to  misrepresent 
the  facts.  We  understand  that  it  has  been  intimated  by  ene- 
mies of  the  parish  that  the  present  Vestry  are  not  good 
financiers — that  the  revenue  of  the  parish  is  not  equal  to  the 
expenses,  and  that  the  parish  is  getting  deeper  into  debt.  The 
simple  facts  are  these:  The  revenue  of  the  parish  not  only 
covers  the  regular  expenses  of  the  parish,  including  the  mis- 
sion work  of  St.  Paul's  and  St.  John's  Chapels,  but  pays  the 
interest  on  the  old  debt — over  $400  a  year— and  $700  a  year 
on  the  building  association  loan,  which  was  negotiated  to  con- 
struct the  Rectory ;  an  arrangement  which  stopped  the  pay- 
ment of  $600  a  year  for  Rectory  rent.  So  we  see  that  so  far 
from  the  revenue  of  the  parish  falling  short  of  its  expenses, 
the  revenue  meets  the  regular  expenses,  the  interest  on  the 
old  debt  and  is  paying  for  the  Rectory. 

As  to  the  debt,  let  it  be  remembered  that  when  the  present 
Vestry  came  into  office  Easter  Monday,  1887,  there  was  sup- 
posed to  be  a  debt  of  $7,000  on  the  Church,  i.  e.,  a  mortgage 
debt  of  $4,000,  drawing  10  per  cent  interest,  and  floating 
debts  amounting  to  $3,000.  The  new  Vestry  at  once  took  up 
that  amount  with  a  new  loan  at  8  per  cent  interest.  No 
sooner  had  they  done  so  than  bills  began  to  pour  in  that  had 
not  been  taken  account  of,  because  there  was  no  record  of 
them ;  which  unexpected  bills  amounted  to  nearly  $2,000.  In 
May,  1888,  an  installment  of  the  new  loan — $1,000 — fell  due. 
The  Easter  offerings,  amounting  to  $2,400,  was  used  to  pay 
that  installment,  and  the  balance  was  used  together  with  a 
part  of  the  parish  revenue  to  pay  off  the  aforementioned  unex- 
pected bills,  namely,  $2,000.  The  loan  negotiated  to  build 
the  Rectory  proved  to  be  insufficient  by  nearly  $1,000,  and 
finishing  the  basement  for  the  Sunday  School  cost  nearly 
$1,000;  this  amount,  about  $2,000,  was  borrowed  on  short 
time,  and  is  to  be  paid  the  1st  of  May;  at  that  time  another 
installment  of  the  8  per  cent  loan  falls  due — $2,000 — so  that 
the  amount  we  ought  to  raise  from  the  Easter  offerings  this 
year  is  $4,000.  Every  dollar  that  has  been  borrowed  by  the 
present  Vestry  has  substantial  improvements  to  show  for  it, 
or  receipts  for  payment  of  parish  debts  contracted  before  the 


280  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

present  Vestry  came  into  office.  If  the  whole  debt  were  paid, 
including  the  Rectory  loan,  the  present  annual  revenue  of  the 
parish  (exclusive  of  Easter  offerings},  would  exceed  its  ex- 
penses by  more  than  $1,000.  The  administration  of  the 
present  Vestry  has  been  characterized  by  diligence,  wisdom 
and  integrity.  The  Rector,  Vestry  and  congregation  are  in 
perfect  harmony,  and  the  parish  is  enjoying  unprecedented 
prosperity. 


MR.    CARNAHAJSPS   VIEWS    ON   HIGH   AND   LOW 

CHURCH. 

ARKANSAS    CirrKCIIMAN,    APRIL,     1889. 

Perhaps  there  is  no  question  relating  to  the  Church  that 
clergymen  are  asked  more  frequently  than  this :  "  What  is 
the  difference  between  High  Church  and  Low  Church  views  ?" 
and  occasionally  the  inquiry  extends  to  "Broad  Church." 

It  is  no  wonder  that  the  average  layman  has  hazy  notions 
about  these  different  shades  of  Churchmanship,  for  some  of 
their  theological  guides  use  these  terms  very  loosely.  The 
names  of  the  different  schools  of  thought  in  the  Church  ought 
to  be  accurately  descriptive ;  loose  nomenclature  is  at  once  a 
cause  and  a  sign  of  loose  thinking. 

It  is  admitted  by  the  great  body  of  our  clergy  and  edu- 
cated laity  that  there  is  a  place  in  the  Church  for  three  pretty 
distinct  schools  of  thought,  with  innumerable  intermediate 
shades  of  opinion ;  and  we  believe  that  it  is  also  the  conviction 
of  most  Churchmen  that  there  is  an  extreme  wing  of  each  of 
these  ecclesiastical  parties  that  has  not  a  legitimate  place  in 
our  Church. 

The  essential  difference  between  the  old-fashioned  High 
Churchman  and  the  loyal  Low  Churchman  can  be  marked  by 
emphasizing  different  parts  of  the  same  statement  of  the  truth. 

The  regular  Low  Churchman  (who  prefers  to  be  called 
Evangelical  Churchman)  accepts  all  that  the  protestant  High 
Churchman  claims  as  essential,  but  would  \ay  his  emphasis 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  281 

upon  the  necessity  of  a  truly  converted  heart  and  the  import- 
ance of  a  personal  relation  of  the  individual  soul  to  God ;  he 
would  also  lay  stress  upon  justification  by  faith,  as  the  great 
central  doctrine  of  religion. 

The  High  Churchman  proper,  would  accept  all  this  that 
the  Low  Churchman  makes  so  much  of,  but  he  would  empha- 
size the  value  of  the  sacraments  as  means  of  grace ;  and  set  a 
higher  value  upon  the  Apostolic  ministry  than  his  Low 
Church  brother. 

The  orthodox  Broad  Churchman  accepts  all  that  both  the 
High  Churchman  and  the  Low  Churchman  hold ;  though  he 
does  not  emphasize  any  of  it,  but  seeks  to  strengthen  Chris- 
tianity by  the  aid  of  science  and  philosophy.  He  is  very 
lenient  to  all  heterodoxy,  and  dogmatic  about  nothing. 

Now,  we  repeat,  that  the  great  body  of  Churchmen,  cleric 
and  lay,  readily  acknowledge  that  these  are  legitimate  differ- 
ences of  opinion  that  Episcopalians  may  hold ;  being  different 
aspects  of  the  same  truth;  concerning  which  men  may  differ, 
and  yet  be  all  loyal  Churchmen.  But  there  is,  as  already 
said,  an  ultra  wing  of  each  of  these  schools  of  thought.  The 
extreme  Broad  Churchman  eliminates  entirely  the  super- 
natural from  religion ;  in  a  word,  he  is  a  rationalist.  The 
ultra  Low  Churchmen  nearly  all  followed  the  late  Bishop 
Cummins  into  his  little  schism ;  the  very  few  that  are  left  in 
our  Church  differ  in  no  particular,  in  doctrine  or  practice, 
from  the  Cumminsites.  The  ultra  Low  Churchman  thinks 
there  are  "Romanizing  germs"  in  the  Prayer  Book ;  the  con- 
servative Low  Churchman  considers  the  Prayer  Book  the  "bul- 
wark of  protestantism."  The  ultra  High  Churchmen,  com- 
monly called  Ritualists,  affect  the  name  of  "Catholic  Church- 
men," or  "Advanced  Churchmen,"  which  is  Ulcus  a  non 
lueendo,  for  this  faction  is  the  most  un-Catholic  and  the  most 
reactionary  of  all  Churchmen.  If  we  were  an  authority  in 
philology  we  should  call  them  Retinoids. 

The  Ritualists  (to  use  their  commonest  designation)  be- 
lieve in  private  confession  to  a  priest,  in  order  to  personal, 
judicial  absolution,  which  they  say  is  necessary  for  the  edify- 
ing reception  of  the  Holy  Communion,  and  for  the  production 


282  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

of  a  highly  spiritual  life.  They  teach  a  theory  of  the 
Lord's  Supper  which  is  distinguishable  from  the  Roman  doc- 
trine of  transubstantiation  only  by  expert  metaphysicians ; 
indeed,  some  Ritualists  candidly  accept  that  doctrine  fully. 
They  call  the  Holy  Communion  "Mass,"  claiming  that  the 
officiating  "Priest''  offers  a  real  sacrifice  in  that  sacrament. 
They  have  requiem  masses  for  the  repose  of  souls,  they  believe 
in  prayers  for  the  dead.  Some  few  Ritualists  believe  in  the 
celibacy  of  the  clergy  (without  practicing  it).  Indeed  most 
of  them  seem  to  accept  every  doctrine  of  the  Church  of  Rome 
except  the  "Immaculate  conception"  of  the  Virgin  Mary,  and 
the  Infallibility  of  the  Pope,  whose  "rightful  supremacy," 
however,  they  sweetly  concede,  to  the  great  amusement  of 
Romanists. 

It  is  needless  to  say  that  old-fashioned,  protestant  High 
Churchmen  repudiate  the  Ritualists  as  having  no  relation 
whatever  to  their  position.  The  Ritualists  return  the  compli- 
ment by  rejecting  the  name  of  High  Churchman,  except  when 
they  want  to  deceive  some  one  as  to  their  real  views,  then  they 
are  apt  to  wear  a  High  Church  mask,  doubtless  with  a  wry 
face. 

How  any  honest  man,  especially  a  clergyman,  can  hold 
the  views  of  any  of  these  extremists,  and  remain  in  the  Protest- 
ant Episcopal  Church,  in  peace  of  mind,  is  an  ethical  mystery. 
It  is  to  be  feared  that  many  of  these  men  have  paltered  with 
the  truth  as  taught  by  our  Church  until  a  false  casuistry  has 
destroyed  their  honesty. 


A^GLO-SAXTO^T  CHURCHMAK 

1890. 

SACERDOTAL  CASTE. 

It  is  a  bad  sign  of  the  times  that  the  clergy  are  so  impa- 
tient of  the  influence  of  the  laity  in  the  Church. 

It  is  not  merely  dislike  of  the  "lay  pope"  in  the  parish ; 
that  is  too  small  a  factor  to  account  for  such  a  general  feeling. 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  283 

It  is  not,  in  all  cases,  a  righteous  zeal  for  the  missionary  duty 
of  the  Church,  which  chafes  under  the  parochial  narrowness 
of  many  laymen.  If  this  were  all,  the  drift  we  speak  of  would 
be  occasion  for  rejoicing. 

It  is  the  growing  caste  feeling  amongst  the  clergy  that 
lies  at  the  bottom  of  impatience  with  lay  influence.  It  is  the 
disposition  on  the  part  of  some  of  the  clergy  to  assert  preroga- 
tive for  the  sake  of  prerogative,  a  feeling  which  may  be  ex- 
pressed in  clerical  language  like  this:  "You  laymen  must 
do  as  I  say,  because  I  am  ordained." 

A'ow  this  seems  to  us  a  false  and  pernicious  attitude  for 
the  clergy.  Truly,  the  ministry  is  a  chieftainship,  a  chief- 
tainship in  things  spiritual ;  but  a  position  that  can  be  held 
and  exercised  to  the  edification  of  the  Church  only  by  the 
personal  power  and  moral  worth  of  the  clergyman.  The 
army  officer's  commission  gives  him  the  right  to  command, 
but  no  officer  can  command  successfully  unless  his  courage 
and  skill  command  the  confidence  of  the  troops. 

The  worst  feature  of  the  revival  of  priestcraft  and  priest 
caste  in  the  Church  is  the  decay  of  those  qualities  amongst 
the  clergy  that  command  the  following  of  the  laity  without 
sacerdotal  self-assertion. 

The  clergyman  who  lacks  personal  qualities  of  leadership 
falls  back  upon  prerogative.  This,  we  say,  is  the  worst  of  it. 
The  prevalent  clerical  jealousy  of  lay  power  is  a  sign  of  decay- 
ing manhood  and  natural  chieftainship  amongst  the  clergy. 
The  cure  for  a  blacksmith's  waning  muscle  is  not  a  heavier 
hammer,  but  the  toning  up  of  his  health. 

Clergymen  of  brains,  will  and  piety  have  no  need  to 
emphasize  clerical  prerogative,  and  clerical  weaklings  shall 
emphasize  it  in  vain.  This  is  the  nineteenth,  not  the  thir- 
teenth century. 


The  children  of  Rev.  Wallace  Carnahan  and  Mary  S. 
Hart,  his  wife,  are  Mary  Caroline,  Hart,  Einelyn  Louise, 
Annie  Sue,  Wallace,  Jr.,  and  Barron.  The  last  named  was 
born  in  Alabama,  and  died  there  when  thirteen  months  old. 


284  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

From  the  foregoing  extracts  from  the  Church  Journal 
it  will  he  seen  that  Mr.  Carnahan  was  a  model  of  execu- 
tive strength.  His  eye  kept  guard  over  every  department 
of  parochial  duty.  He  believed  in  the  influence  of  the 
Sunday  School.  The  men  and  women  who  were  to  con- 
duct human  intelligence  to  its  full  splendor  there  obtained 
their  inspiration,  he  thought,  and  the  infant  soul  was  there 
awakened  to  the  sense  of  divine  things.  At  the  great  fes- 
tivals of  the  Advent  and  the  Resurrection  he  spared  no  effort 
to  impress  the  signal  truths  of  Christianity  on  the  minds  of 
the  children.  With  texts  committed  and  banners,  bearing  holv 
legends,  that  stamped  themselves  on  eye  and  brain,  he  led  the 
youthful  soldiers  onward  in  the  footsteps  of  the  Great  Captain 
of  Salvation.  One  beautiful  design  on  an  Easter  festival 
was  a  huge  butterfly,  six  feet  in  height  and  seven  feet  from 
tip  to  tip  of  the  wings  when  expanded.  It  was  made  in  adjus- 
table sections  of  woven  wire  into  a  frame.  Each  teacher  took 
a  section  and  her  scholars  provided  the  flowers  with  which  to 
deck  it;  these  were  shaded  in  all  the  rich  colors  of  a  natural 
butterfly,  which  was  closely  imitated.  At  the  festival  each 
class  was  called  to  the  Chancel  to  deposit  its  mite  box.  A 
member  carried  the  floral  section,  which  was  received  by  the 
superintendent  and  put  in  place  on  the  skeleton  frame.  The 
spectators  watched  intently  as  the  butterfly  expanded  in  form 
and  beauty,  until  at  length  it  stood  complete,  a  lovely  emblem 
of  the  resurrection.  The  Rector  then  made  a  lecture,  explain- 
ing the  process  of  growth  from  the  larval  state  of  the  cater- 
pillar to  the  glorious  perfection  of  the  winged  butterfly ;  a 
miracle  of  Nature,  which  signified  to  us  the  great  miracle  of 
the  resurrection  of  the  body  to  the  life  immortal. 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  285 

REPORT    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH,    LITTLE    ROCK, 

TO   THE   SIXTEENTH   COUNCIL   OF   THE 

DIOCESE    OF    ARKANSAS. 

From  April  19,  1887,  to  April  11,  1888— 

Number  of  families 331 

Number  of  communicants 508 

Number  of  souls 1,628 

Baptisms — 

Infants 40 

Adults 17 

Total 57 

Confirmations 38 

Marriages 7 

Burials   18 

Sunday  Schools — - 

Teachers 41 

Pupils 365 

Total 405 

OFFERINGS. 

PAROCHIAL. 

Salary  of  Rector $  2,332.90 

Rent  of  Rectory 587.50 

Salary  of  assistant  minister  (seven  months) 493.35 

Communion  alms   333.20 

Church  carpet  and  furniture 1,318.00 

Church  building  and  debt 3,804.79 

Insurance  on  Church 498.15 

Other  parish  expenses 1,402.32 


Total $10,770.21 


286  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

DIOCESAN. 

Council  assessment $  100.00 

Episcopate  fund 72.49 

Diocesan  missions   82.73 

Fund  for  widows  and  orphans  of  deceased  clergy .  .  10.70 


Total $  325.92 

BEYOND  THE  DIOCESE. 

Domestic  Missions — Missionary  box,    $160;  cash 

$109.09 $  269.09 

Foreign  Missions 100.78 

Society  for  Conversion  of  the  Jews 13.50 

American  Church  Building  Fund 12.60 

New  York  Bible  and  Prayer  Book  Society 10.00 

University  of  the  South 50.00 


Total $      455.97 


Aggregate $11,552.45 

Value  of  Church  property $60,000.00 


The  name  of  our  faithful  Senior  Warden,  Major  R.  H. 
Parham,  has  been  suggested  by  some  of  the  secular  press  for 
the  office  of  State  Superintendent  of  Education.  We  do  not 
suppose  he  would  accept  it  upon  the  pitiful  salary  attached  to 
the  office,  but  the  State  would  indeed  be  fortunate  to  secure 
his  services.  A  ripe  scholar,  a  practical  educator  and  an  in- 
corruptible citizen,  he  is  eminently  qualified  for  the  position. 
We  should  prefer  to  see  Major  Parham  President  of  the  State 
University,  but  that  his  election  to  that  post  would  take  him 
out  of  this  parish. 


Our  estimable  Junior  Warden,  the  Hon.  W.  W.  Smith, 
has  gone  with  his  family  to  Florida  to  fortify  his  health, 
which  has  become  somewhat  impaired.       We  wish  him  speedy 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  287 

restoration  and  return.       Christ  Church    can't  spare  Judge 
Smith. 


One  of  the  most  powerful  sermons  delivered  by  Rev.  Mr. 
Carnahan  during  his  incumbency  was  that  on  the  text:  "The 
blind  receive  their  sight,  and  the  lame  walk,  the  lepers  are 
cleansed  and  the  deaf  hear,  the  dead  are  raised  up  and  the 
poor  have  the  gospet  preached  to  them." — Matthew  xi.  5. 

In  this  grand  climax  of  priestly  functions,  laid  down 
by  the  Master  himself  to  John's  disciples,  Dr.  Carnahan  found 
the  keynote  of  his  ministerial  work.  The  poor  had  his  un- 
failing attention.  As  punctually  as  the  Holy  Communion 
was  celebrated  on  the  first  Sunday  of  each  month,  he  an- 
nounced in  direct,  ringing  tones  from  the  Chancel,  "the  alms 
are  for  the  poor."  The  offering  was  always  the  largest 
during  the  month,  for  the  members  of  the  congregation  who 
were  unable  to  go  out  in  search  of  the  poor,  felt  that  their 
alms  were  sure  to  be  distributed  where  most  needed.  No 
demand  of  the  Church  was  ever  allowed  to  divert  this  fund ; 
and  when  a  fifth  Sunday  occurred  in  the  month,  the  offering 
was  invariably  set  aside  for  some  charitable  purpose  and  so 
announced.  Did  not  the  regular  expenses  of  the  Church 
suffer  by  this  plan  ?  Never.  They  were  increased  by  it. 
Of  that  Mr.  Carnahan  never  harbored  a  doubt.  Among  those 
who  so  deeply  lamented  his  withdrawal  from  Christ  Church 
Parish  the  poor  formed  the  most  sincere  band  of  mourners. 


LIST    OF    CONTRIBUTORS    TOWARD    THE    PAY- 
MENT OF  THE  DEBT  ON  CHRIST  CHURCH, 
LITTLE  ROCK,  ARK.,  1892. 

The  Vestry  of  Christ  Church,  Little  Rock,  issue  an  an- 
nual statement  of  the  Easter  offerings  for  the  Church  debt. 
The  following  sums  were  given  on  Easter,  1892.  When  the 
whole  debt  shall  have  been  paid,  a  statement  will  be  printed 


288  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

showing  the  total  amount  received    from    each  contributor 

toward  the  building  of  the  Church  and  the  payment  of  the 
debt. 

Adams,   John  D $  10.00 

Adams,  Sam  B 50.00 

Adams,  Mrs.  S.  B 10.00 

Adams,  Mrs.  Elvira 50.00 

Alley,  Miss  Fannie 1.00 

Amsbary,  D.  H 2.00 

Barber,  Mrs.  L.  E 50.00 

Berkley,  Mrs.  H.  F 10.00 

Billings,  Mrs.  A.  D 5.00 

Billings,  C.  H 5.00 

Bohlinger,   A 10.00 

Bond,  J.  B.,  Jr 2.00 

Boyle,  John  F 10.00 

Brack,   G.    S 25.00 

Brack,  Miss  M.  E 20.00 

Brevsacher,  Dr.  and  Mrs.  A.  L 10.00 

Brooks,  F.  S 2.50 

Burchard,  George  F 3.00 

Cantrell,  Mrs.  G.  M.  D 5.00 

Cantrell,  W.  A 10.00 

Carroll,  Gray 15.00 

Carnahan,  Bev.  Wallace 25.00 

Carnahan,  Mrs.  W 10.00 

Carnahan,  Miss  Lina 1.00 

Cherry,  L.  W 5.00 

Clarke,  F.  D 15.00 

Cochran,  Mrs.  H.  K 20.00 

Cochran,  Harrv,  Jr 2.00 

Cochran,  Sam  * 2.00 

Cockrill,  Mrs.  S.  K 20.00 

Crease,  Miss  A.  S 5.00 

Crowe,  Mrs.  T.  B 1.00 

Cowpland,  John  B 5.00 

Conwav,  Mrs.  Alice 5.00 

Darragh,  T.  J 100.00 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  289 

Deshon,  Mrs.  E.  A 5.00 

Dibrell,  Mrs.  J.  A 10.00 

Davis,  Mrs.   W.  D 50 

Lhmlap,    G.    W 5.00 

Ellis,  Mrs.  E.  E 1.00 

Emerson,  Mrs.  A 5.00 

Eggleston,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  S 10.00 

Erb,  Jacob 10.00 

Fletcher,  John  G 100.00 

Fortson,  Mrs.  E.  S 1.00 

Fox,  Mrs.  Emma 5.00 

Frolich,  Mrs.  J 1.00 

Gear,  Mrs.  P.  A 1.00 

Goodrich,  Ralph  L 25.00 

Goodwin,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  W 35.00 

Goodwin,  John  B 5.00 

Goodwin,  Willie 5.00 

Goodwin,  Bessie 5.00 

Gress,  Mrs.  KB 15.00 

Griffith,  S.  L 25.00 

Griffith,  Mrs.  E.  P 10.00 

Griffith,  Maude 2.50 

Haile,  B.  M 2.50 

Haney,  J.  H 15.00 

HaneV,  Mrs.  Mary  C 5.00 

Haney,  Will * 1.00 

Harnwell,  Mrs 5.00 

Harrell,  Miss  M.  E 2.00 

Hodges,  Mrs.  C.  T 3.00 

Hollenberg,  Mrs.  H.  G 5.00 

Hollenberg,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  F.  B.  T 10.00 

Hopkins,  K.   0 5.00 

Horrocks,  Mrs.  M.  S 4.00 

Hutt,  Mrs.  F.  E 10.00 

llutton,  W.  P 5.00 

Jabine,  Mrs.  J.  N 5.00 

Jennings,  P.  G 10.00 

Johnson,  Mrs.  Frances 5.00 


290  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

Johnston,  M.  H 15.00 

Jordan,  Miss  Matilda 10.00 

Kendrick,  Joseph 10.00 

Kirkwood,  John  W 4.00 

Kirkwood,  T.  C 5.00 

Klingel,  Mrs.  Henry 5.00 

Kramer,  C.  J.   .  .  . ". 5.00 

Kramer,  Miss  Emma 25.00 

Lange,  Mrs.  W 1.00 

Langdon,  Chas.  A 5.00 

Langdon,  H 1.50 

Lawson,  Miss  Nellie 3.00 

Lee,  George  H 3.00 

Lenow,  Mrs.  J.  H 5.00 

Leslie,  Mrs.  E 1.00 

Lewis,  Charles  H 5.00 

Lewis,  Misses  Lollie  and  Sue 5.00 

Marguth,  Mrs.  E.  H 1.50 

Martin,  Mrs.  K.  W 10.00 

Matthews,  Mrs.  J.  L 3.00 

Miller,  Mrs.  J.  K 10.00 

Miller,  Miss  Eosa 5.00 

Mitchell,  John  A 10.00 

Myers,  B.  S 1.00 

Miller,  W.  H 15.00 

Newton,  Mrs.  E.  C 10.00 

Peay,  Gordon  1ST 10.00 

Peay,  Mrs.  Sue  C 10.00 

Percival,  Mrs.  J.  M 10.00 

Peyton,  Mrs.  Caroline 25.00 

Powell,  T.  C 25.00 

Rather,  Mrs.  H.  C 5.00 

Kagland,  W.  H 15.00 

Ritchie,  J.  E 1.00 

Roberts,  C.  P 2.50 

Rutland,  Mrs.  A.  A 5.00 

Rumbough,  Mrs.  G.  P.  C 5.00 

Sannoner,  J.  H 10.00 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  291 

Sappingtotn,  G.  W 10.00 

Sayle,  Mrs.  Claude  II 5.00 

Scott,  Mrs.  E.  L 10.00 

Scott,  Miss  Fannie   5.00 

Shall,  Miss  L.  S 20.00 

Skirving,  William 5.00 

Simmons,  Mrs.  J.  W 5.00 

Simmons,  M.  C 1.00 

Smith,  Mrs.  R.  E 2.50 

Smith,  Jim    25 

Smothers,   L.    S 5.00 

Speed,  Mrs.  J.  S 5.00 

Spinner,  Mrs.  G.  V 2.00 

Southall,  Mrs.  J.  H 10.00 

Stark,  L.  R 10.00 

Sterling,  Mrs.  B.  B 2.50 

Stratman,  G.  H 5.00 

Sundholm,  August 10.00 

Timmis,  T.  J 1.00 

Tucker,  Miss  Jennie 2.50 

Watkins,  Claiborne 25.00 

Watkins,  Mrs.  Susie 5.00 

Whittemore,  C.  H 10.00 

Worthen,  W.  B 50.00 

Wright,  W.  F 20.00 

Wright,  Mrs.  E.  R 15.00 

Zimmerman,  J.  V 10.00 

Zimmerman,  Mrs.  J.  V 5.00 

Anonymous    100.96 

Total $1,551.21 


August  21,  1894. 
A  PLEASANT  CHURCH  EPISODE. 

Sunday  was  the  occasion  of  a  significant  event  in  the 
annals  of  Christ  Church,  Episcopal,  of  this  city.       Rev.  Wal- 


292  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

lace  Carnahan,  having  resigned  the  charge  of  this  parish  to 
accept  the  position  of  principal  in  the  Church  school  at  San 
Antonio,  Texas,  expects  to  leave  with  his  family  for  the  new- 
field  of  labor  on  the  latter  part  of  the  month. 

The  Ladies'  Aid  Society,  which  has  for  so  many  years 
been  the  bulwark  of  the  Church  here,  and  which  has,  during 
the  last  eight  years  done  such  effective  work  under  his  super- 
vision, havino-  the  desire  to  make  some  expression  of  appre- 
ciation of  his  inspiration,  guidance  and  example,  united  with 
other  friends  in  an  offering  which  was  presented  to  him  yes- 
terday. This  was  composed  of  four  dozen  and  a  half  pieces 
of  sterling  silver  for  table  use,  each  piece  inscribed  with  the 
name  "Carnahan,"  to  include  both  him  and  his  lovely  wife, 
who  has  endeared  herself  to  the  parish  by  her  many  virtues. 

The  prayers  and  best  wishes  of  the  congregation  will 
accompany  Mr.  Carnahan  and  his  family  to  their  new  home. 


[Arkansas  Gazette,  August  28,  1894.] 
BIDS  THEM  FAREWELL. 

REV.    WALLACE    CARNAHAN,    THEIR    CHAPLAIN,    TALKS    TO    THE 

MACKS OWING  TO  ILLNESS  HE  IS  UNABLE  TO  PREACH 

HIS    LAST    LITTLE    ROCK   SERMON. 

The  McCarthy  Light  Guards  attended  Christ  Church 
last  Sunday  morning  in  a  body  in  fatigue  uniform,  to  hear 
a  few  farewell  words  delivered  to  them  by  their  Chaplain, 
Rev.  Wallace  Carnahan.,  who  leaves  for  San  Antonio  next 
Friday  morning.  Owing  to  illness  he  was  unable  to  preach 
his  regular  sermon,  however.  He  complimented  the  com- 
pany on  its  manliness  and  courage  as  displayed  during  the 
recent  strike  and  urged  them  all  to  be  soldiers  of  Christ. 

He  has  been  Chaplain  of  the  company  for  some  years, 
and  they  will  regret  his  departure  exceedingly.  He  an- 
nounced that  on  Thursday  evening,  this  week,  he  would 
preach  his  farewell  sermon  to  his  congregation,   and  other 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  293 

friends.  After  his  departure  and  until  the  arrival  on  Oc- 
tober 1,  of  the  new  Rector,  Rev.  Gass,  of  Charleston,  S.  C, 
the  Church  will  be  closed  for  repairs. 


REV.  WALLACE  CARNAHAK 

THE    POPULAR    CHRIST    CHURCH    RECTOR    SAYS    FAREWELL    TO- 
NIGHT  HIS    RESIGNATION    TO    HIS    VESTRY   AND    THE 

ACCEPTANCE AN  EIGHT  YEARS'  PASTORATE. 

Rev.  Wallace  Carnahan,  the  able  and  beloved  Rector  of 
Christ  Church,  who  has  served  his  congregation  for  eight 
years  faithfully,  on  account  of  failing  health,  has  been  com- 
pelled to  resign  his  pastorate,  and  to-night  preaches  his  fare- 
well sermon  to  his  congregation  and  friends,  leaving  to-mor- 
row morning  for  San  Antonio  to  accept  the  principalship  of 
a  ladies'  seminary. 

His  resignation  was  tendered  some  months  ago.  He 
wrote  his  Vestry  as  follows : 

" To  the  Vestry  of  Christ  Church : 

"Dear  Brethren — It  gives  me  more  pain  than  I  can  ex- 
press to  write  this,  my  resignation,  of  the  Rectorship  of 
Christ  Church. 

"My  work  in  this  parish  has  been  so  blessed,  the  Vestry 
has  been  so  kind  and  true  to  me,  and  the  congregation  has 
been  so  appreciative  and  devoted  that  it  seems  almost  like 
a  father  leaving  his  family  for  me  to  separate  from  you. 

"Nothing,  I  am  sure,  but  death  or  the  exigencies  of  health 
could  sever  the  sacred  bond  that  has  bound  us  together  in  such 
close  and  loving  relation  for  these  seven  and  half  years.  I 
feel  constrained  to  lay  down  this  precious  charge  and  accept 
work  where  the  climate  may  possibly  improve  my  impaired 
health  and  prolong  my  life. 

"I  expect  to  enter  upon  that  work  early  next  autumn, 
and,  therefore,  beg  that  you  will  accept  my  resignation,  to 
take  effect  the  31st  of  next  August.       If  God  spares  my  life 

20 


294  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

so  long,  I  shall  on  that  day  complete  eight  years  of  ministry 
with  you;  an  imperfect  ministry  I  sincerely  confess,  but  I 
trust  an  honest  and  earnest  ministry. 

"Thanking  you  from  the  bottom  of  my  heart  for  your 
loyal  support  as  a  Vestry,  and  for  your  innumerable  personal 
kindnesses,  I  am  faithfully  your  brother  in  Christ, 

"WALLACE  CAKKAHAlsr." 

The  Vestry  accepted  the  resignation  some  weeks  later  in 
the  following  letter : 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Vestry  of  Christ  Church,  Little 
Rock,  Ark.,  the  following  resolutions  were  unanimously 
adopted : 

"Resolved,  That  the  Vestry  of  Christ  Church  have 
received,  with  profound  regret,  the  voluntary  resignation  of 
Rev.  Wallace  Carnahan,  as  Rector  of  this  parish,  which  office 
he  has  filled  for  nearly  eight  years,  to  the  building  up  and 
strengthening  of  pure  religion  and  the  welfare  of  many  souls, 
during  which  time  his  influence  has  been  felt  in  countless 
avenues  for  the  good  of  mankind  and  which  it  was  their  belief 
and  hope  would  continue  many  more. 

"Resolved,  That  while  considering  his  withdrawal 
from  the  parish  as  a  public  and  private  misfortune,  in  consid- 
eration of  the  benefit  to  be  secured  by  a  change  of  climate,  we 
do  reluctantly  accept  his  resignation  with  a  full  conscious- 
ness of  our  loss,  which  is  only  balanced  by  the  hope  of  the 
benefit  that  may  accrue  to  him  in  change  of  duties. 

"Resolved,  That  these  resolutions  be  spread  on  the 
record  book  of  the  Vestry,  and  that  a  copy  of  them  be  sent  to 
Rev.  Wallace  Carnahan  and  to  the  press. 

"Attest :  W.  H.  RAGLAND, 

Secretary." 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  295 

REV.   WALLACE   CARXAHAX. 

THE  BELOVED  PASTOR  OF  CHRIST  CHURCH  PREACHES  HIS  FARE- 
WELL  AN  AFFECTING  SCENE  AT   WHICH  DEVOTED 

WOMEN  AND  BRAVE   MEN   SHED  TEARS 
OF   PARTING. 

Looking  unto  Jesus,  the  author  and  finisher  of  our  faith ; 
who  for  the  joy  that  was  set  before  him  endured  the  cross, 
despising  the  shame,  and  is  set  down  at  the  right  hand  of  the 
throne  of  God. — Hebrews  xii.  2. 

Rev.  Wallace  Carnahan  has  bidden  farewell  to  Christ 
Church  and  the  City  of  Little  Rock,  leaving  for  San  Antonio 
this  morning  with  his  charming  family  to  seek  the  restoration 
of  shattered  health  in  the  balmy  breezes  of  the  Spanish- Ameri- 
can city,  and  to  take  charge  of  a  ladies'  seminary. 

As  Chaplain  of  the  McCarthy  Light  Guards,  he  bade 
farewell  to  them  last  Sunday  morning,  announcing  that  on 
last  night  he  would  bid  farewell  to  his  congregation  and 
friends. 

Under  ordinary  circumstances  this,  in  many  respects  re- 
markable preacher  of  Christ's  gospel,  attracts  a  large  audi- 
ence, not  only  from  his  own  communicants,  but  from  the  public 
at  large,  without  regard  to  creed,  sect  or  schism.  The  fact 
that  he  would  preach  a  farewell  sermon  last  night  filled  the 
sacred  edifice  of  Christ  Church  at  Fifth  and  Scott  streets  to 
its  fullest  capacity,  representative  citizens  of  all  denomina- 
tions being  among  his  auditors. 

During  an  eight  years'  ministry  in  Christ  Church  Parish 
it  is  not  unnatural  that  a  man  of  such  intellectuality,  such 
breadth  of  imagination,  such  marked  individuality  and 
withal  such  spirituality  and  honesty  of  purpose  should  bind 
himself  with  hooks  of  steel  to  his  parishioners.  No  man  in 
or  out  of  the  pulpit  in  Little  Rock  has  impressed  himself  to 
such  a  marked  degree  upon  the  community  at  large.  His 
positivism,  his  strict  adherence  to  a  line  of  action,  which, 
if   not    approved    by    others,  had  the  approval    of   his    own 


296  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

conscience,  has  often  been  the  signal  battle  in  the  Church 
militant,  and  no  minister  has  received  a  stronger  cross-fire 
of  criticism  than  he.  He  possessed  all  the  qualities  of  leader- 
ship, and  of  a  pugnacious  race,  as  he  admitted  in  his  sermon 
last  night,  with  many  imperfections,  in  every  fight  for  what 
he  believed  to  be  right,  he  thought  himself  faithful  to  his 
Master. 

The  sermon  was  interlarded  in  the  usual  place  in  the 
beautiful  and  impressive  service  of  the  Church,  Professor  R. 
Jefferson  Hall  presiding  at  the  organ. 

He  read  as  the  evening  lesson  the  21st  chapter  of  the 
Acts  of  the  Apostles,  choosing  for  his  text  Hebrews  xii.  2, 
which  appears  at  the  beginning  of  this  notice. 

He  spoke  for  half  an  hour,  his  auditors  drinking  deep 
of  the  words  of  devotion,  admonition  and  parting  of  the 
beloved  pastor.  He  likened  the  Church  to  the  home,  the 
family  circle,  of  which  the  Rector  is  the  fostering  parent.  He 
believed  he  had  done  his  duty  to  his  congregation ;  that  he 
could  say  this  without  affectation.  He  had  won  the  love  and 
affection  of  his  parishioners  by  his  leadership.  He  over- 
came, at  times,  what  had  seemed  insuperable  obstacles,  and 
had  triumphed. 

He  would  not  have  his  hearers  believe  that  this  was  due 
to  his  own  personality,  however.  He  would  not  presume  so 
much.  His  success  had  been  due  to  the  Spirit  of  Christ 
behind  him,  to  whom  he  had  been  ever  faithful.  To  his  suc- 
cess, a  loving  and  devoted  parish,  Vestry,  choir  and  parish- 
ioners, and  Mr.  Huntley  in  the  mission  field,  he  had  been 
deeply  indebted  for  the  results  attained.  With  upturned  face 
and  closed  eyes,  in  prayerful  attitude,  he  breathed  a  benedic- 
tion upon  his  parish.  He  then  turned  from  the  past  to  the 
future,  admonishing  his  congregation  as  to  its  obligations  to 
the  new  Rector,  Rev.  John  Gass,  a  man  of  God,  who  would 
be  in  every  way  worthy  of  their  love,  affection,  and  support. 
He  would  need  no  apologies.  A  minister,  who  needed  any 
apologies  for  his  manhood,  should  be  banished  from  the  pulpit. 
It  should  not  be  expected  that  Mr.  Gass  should  be  like  him- 
self ;  he  hoped  he  would  not  be.      Every  strong  man  has  his 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  297 

own  individualities  and  works,  if  a  true  minister  of  God,  by 
different  means  to  the  same  grand  ends.  He  would  not  have 
his  successor  a  "bastard  Romanist,"  and  his  parish  would  not 
find  Rev.  Gass  of  such.  He  admonished  his  parishioners  that 
if  any  should  tease  the  new  Rector  with  requests  for  a  quar- 
tette or  any  other  form  of  show  in  the  Church  that  they  should 
go  to  their  Rector  kindly  and  assure  him  of  their  support  in 
his  opposition. 

He  would  like  to  see  the  spiritualitv  of  the  Church  pre- 
served. He  knew  his  parish  would  receive  the  new  Rector 
with  proper  respect  for  himself  as  well  as  his  opinions.  The 
spirit  of  Christ  had  harmonized  the  differences  between  him- 
self and  his  parishioners.  It  would  do  the  same  under  any 
new  conditions  that  might  arise. 

His  closing  words  were  uttered  with  deep  pathos,  he 
being  at  times  almost  overcome  with  emotion,  and  followed 
with  a  prayer  for  the  new  Rector,  which  will  linger  long  in 
the  hearts  of  those  who  heard  it. 

At  the  close  of  the  service,  the  vast  audience  came  to  the 
altar,  and  one  by  one  bade  the  departing  minister  of  God  a 
tearful  farewell.  It  was  an  affecting  scene,  which  moved 
strong  men  to  tears. 

A   PRESENTATION. 

The  last  farewell  had  not  been  said  when  Mr.  C.  T. 
Coffman,  on  behalf  of  the  Brotherhood  of  St.  Andrew,  in  a 
few  appropriate  and  well  chosen  words  presented  the  retiring 
Rector  with  a  large  sized  photograph  of  Christ  Church,  as  a 
reminder  of  his  eight  years  of  service  and  his  faithful  flock. 
The  Rector  was  deeply  moved,  accepting  the  appropriate  gift 
with  deepest  expression  of  gratitude. 


298  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

CHRIST  CHURCH,  LITTLE  ROCK,  ARK,  1894. 

REPORT  FOR  THE  YEAR  ENDING  APRIL  24,  1S94. 

Number  of  Families 366 

Number  of  Communicants 661 

Number  of  Sunday  School  Teachers 40 

Number  of  Sunday  School  Pupils 300 

Number  of  Baptisms 26 

Number  of  Confirmations 45 

Number  of  Marriages 11 

Number  of  Burials 23 

OFFERINGS. 

Communion  Alms $    147.70 

Rector's  Salary   2,400.00 

Gifts  to  the  Rector 315.00 

Church  Debt    1,491.60 

Parish  Expenses    1,475.60 

Diocesan  Missions 116.20 

Domestic  Missions    227.00 

Jewish  Missions 23.55 

Deaf  Mute  Mission 10.00 

Widows  and  Orphans  of  Clergymen 21.00 

University  of  the  South 30.00 

Total $6,257.65 


VALUE   OF   CHURCH    PROPERTY. 


Church  Edifice  and  Grounds $60,000.00 

Rectory  and  Grounds 8,500.00 

St.  Paul's  Chapel   1,500.00 

Total $70,000.00 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  299 

THE   FAMOUS   RECTOR   OF   CHRIST   EPISCOPAL 
CHURCH,   IX  THE  CITY  OF  ROSES. 

COMPELLED     TO     MOVE     TO     SAN     ANTONIO     ON     ACCOUNT     OF 
FAILING  HEALTH. 

LITTLE  ROCK,  ARK.,  May  27,  1894.— Rev.  Wallace 
Carnahan,  for  the  past  eight  years  Rector  of  Christ  Episcopal 
Church,  this  city,  and  one  of  the  foremost  clergymen  of  the 
South,  will  shortly  give  up  his  pastorate  here  and  remove  to 
San  Antonio,  Texas,  where  he  will  assume  charge  of  St. 
Mary's  Hall,  an  institution  of  learning  for  young  ladies,  con- 
ducted under  the  auspices  of  the  Episcopal  Church. 

When  Mr.  Carnahan's  resignation  was  first  laid  before 
the  Vestry  of  Christ  Church,  its  acceptance  was  declined  by  a 
unanimous  vote ;  but  when  he  appeared  before  the  Parochial 
Assembly  and  stated  his  real  reasons  for  desiring  a  change, 
which  was  on  account  of  his  health,  the  resignation  was  ac- 
cepted. He,  accompanied  by  his  charming  family,  will  leave 
Little  Rock  in  July,  and  immediately  enter  upon  his  duties  as 
principal  of  St.  Marv's  Hall,  succeeding  the  Rev.  John  G. 
Mulhollaud,  D.  D. 

This  school  was  established  by  Bishop  Elliott  in  1877,  in 
a  building  given  by  Mr.  John  Wollfe,  of  New  York,  in  mem- 
ory of  a  daughter  who  had  died.  Miss  Phillipe  Stevenson 
was  the  first  principal,  and  continued  in  that  position  for 
nine  years,  when  failing  health  compelled  her  to  resign. 
Under  her  guidance  the  school  grew  rapidly,  and  at  the  time 
that  the  present  Bishop,  Bishop  Johnston,  came  to  take  up  the 
work  of  Bishop  Elliott  in  1888,  it  had  outgrown  its  quarters. 
One  of  the  first  enterprises  of  Bishop  Johnston  was  to  build 
a  boarding  department  to  the  school,  and  in  1890  the  front 
portion  of  the  new  building,  known  as  Elliott  Hall,  was  erected 
and  occupied,  and  the  next  year  it  was  completed  as  it  now 
stands. 

The  departure  of  Mr.  Carnahan  from  Little  Rock  is  uni- 
versally regretted  by  all  who  know  him  and  are  familiar  with 


300  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

his  work  in  this  State.  He  has  done  more  for  Christ  Church 
than  all  his  predecessors  combined,  and  his  successors  will 
find  one  of  the  best  organized  parishes  in  the  entire  country. 
That  grand  and  noble  man,  the  lamented  Major  John  D. 
Adams,  who  was  Senior  Warden  of  Christ  Church  up  to  the 
day  of  his  death,  looked  upon  Mr.  Carnahan  as  the  peer  of 
the  Southern  clergy.  The  writer  well  remembers  a  conver- 
sation he  had  with  Major  Adams,  about  two  years  ago,  when 
the  subject  of  this  sketch  was  being  discussed.  "To  know 
Mr.  Carnahan,"  said  Major  Adams,  "is  to  love  him.  He  is 
no  ordinary  man,  by  any  means ;  in  fact,  I  look  upon  him  as 
the  peer  of  any  man  in  our  Church.  A  casual  acquaintance 
does  not  give  you  a  correct  insight  of  the  man ;  but  when  you 
learn  to  know  him,  and  know  him  well,  all  earth  and  its  pos- 
sessions cannot  sever  the  ties  of  friendship  which  bind  you 
to  him."  This  expression  voices  the  sentiment  of  the  entire 
parish. 


LIST  OF  CONTRIBUTORS  TO  EASTER  OFFERINGS. 

The  Vestry  of  Christ  Church,  Little  Rock,  issue  an  an- 
nual statement  of  the  Easter  offerings  for  the  Church  debt. 
The  following  sums  were  given  on  Easter,  1894. 

When  the  whole  debt  shall  have  been  paid,  a  statement 
will  be  printed  showing  the  total  amount  received  from  each 
contributor  toward  the  building  of  the  Church  and  the  pay- 
ment of  the  debt. 

E.  K  Conway $  5.00 

Mrs.  J.  Erb 5.00 

J.  S.  Speed 5.00 

S.  B.  Stafford   5.00 

S.  R.  Cockrill   25.00 

Miss  Fannie  Bell 3.00 

Miss  Evie  Bell    3.00 

Miss  Hattie  Bell   3.00 

Mrs.  Mary  Bell 5.00 

R.   IT.   Parham    10.00 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  301 

G.  R.  McSwine 5.00 

W.  A.  Cantrell    10.00 

£.  R.  Wright 10.00 

W.  F.  Wright 15.00 

M.  Wright 5.00 

E.  ( !.  Adams 50.00 

Jno.  D.  Adams   30.00 

G.  Brack,  Jr 1.00 

C.   Brack    1.00 

Elbert  Brack   1.00 

Imogene  Brack    1.00 

Mrs.  J.  Blocker 1.00 

N.  Y.  Bailey 5.00 

G.  M.  D.  Cantrell 2.00 

Miss  Bessie  Cantrell 5.00 

Miss  Carrie  Carnahan 1.00 

Miss  Lina  Carnahan 1.00 

Mrs.  J.  A.  Crutchfield 5.00 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  II.  K.  Cochran 25.00 

Miss  A.  S.  Crease .  10.00 

Miss  Sue  Cooper 1.00 

Sam  Churchill 5.00 

Miss  Jennie  Clement 5.00 

W.  A.  Compton 10.00 

L.  W.  Cherry 10.00 

Mrs.  G.  A.  Davis 5.00 

Miss  Emma  Eox 5.00 

Robt.  Griffith .- 25 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  W.  Goodwin 35.00 

R.  B.  Gress 15.00 

Miss  Madge  Henegen 5.00 

R.  O.  Hopkins 5.00 

Mrs.  F.  E.  Hutt 5.00 

Miss  Alice  Hammond 1.00 

Mrs.  C.  T.  Hodges 3.00 

J.  H.  Haney 10.00 

Mrs.  J.  H.  Haney 5.00 

Miss  M.  Jordon 1 0.00 


302  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

J .  W.  Kirkwood 1.00 

C.  J.  Kramer 10.00 

Jas.  Kendrick    10.00 

Miss  Nellie  Lawson 2.00 

Miss  Emily  Lewis 10 

Mrs.  Jas.  Lawson   5.00 

Mrs.  E.  S.  Leslie 5.00 

G.  II.  Lee 5.00 

Miss  Merrick 5.00 

Miss  Marquith 50 

Mrs.  Marquith 50 

Fred  Martin 5.00 

Miss  Amelia  Miller 10.00 

Miss  Rosa  Miller 10.00 

Mrs.  J.  R.  Miller 25.00 

Mrs.  J.  S.  Matthews 1.00 

Mrs.  A.  E.  Martin  .  . 15.00 

Mrs.  J.  J.  Morrison 1.00 

R.  T.  Morye 1.00 

Mrs.  E.  C.  Newton 5.00 

C.  E.  Niswonger 5.00 

Miss  Juliette  Peav   2.50 

Mrs.  S.  C.  Peay  ." 2.00 

Miss  Carrie  Peay 1.00 

Mrs.  G.  ~N.  Peay 1.00 

Mrs.  C.  Peyton 10.00 

T.  C.  Powell 25.00 

G.  K  Payne 1.00 

Edna  Payne 35 

Addison  Payne 25 

Bertha  Payne    25 

Rubit  Payne 25 

Mrs.  S.  Parkins 1.00 

Mrs.  M.  W.  Peabody 5.00 

R,  W.  Polk 5.00 

Mrs.  Rumbough 5.00 

Mrs.  A.  A.  Rutland 10.00 

H.  C.  Rather 5.00 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  303 

Mrs.  Fannie  Scott 5.00 

Mrs.  S.  P.  Parks 2.00 

C.  H.  Sayle 5.00 

J.  H.  Sannoner 5.00 

A.  Sundholm 15.00 

K.  E.  Smith 1.00 

A.  B.  Sholars 1.00 

E.  H.  Tobey 5.00 

Mrs.  Jennie  Tucker 3.50 

Mrs.  J.  V.  Zimmerman 5.00 

Miss  May  Wright 50 

Herbert  Wassell 10.00 

Mrs.  Margarette  Wassell 10.00 

Walter  Watkins 5.00 

C.  H.  Whittemore 10.00 

Miscellaneous  Cash 98.41 

Dr.  C.  M.  Taylor 10.00 

Mrs.  T.  J.  Churchill 1.00 

Jno.  F.  Calef 1.00 

Mrs.  N.  K.  Sample 5.00 

Mrs.  Fred  Martin 3.00 

C.  H.  Lewis 5.00 

Miss  J.  Churchill 50 

E.  O.  Clark 2.50 

M.  Wright 5.00 

J.  M.  Bracey 2.50 

J.  S.  Eggleston 10.00 

Mrs.  A.  R.  Trazzare 5.00 

G.  M.  D.  Cantrell 2.00 

Mrs.  S.  E.  Barber 40.00 

Mrs.  G.  S.  Brack   10.00 

G.  S.  Brack 15.00 

Miss  M.  E.  Brack 25.00 

W.  H.  Ragland 20.00 

A.  R.  Peyinghaus LO.OO 

L.  W.  Cherry 10.00 

R.  G.  Pillow 2.50 

G.  H.  Stratman 5.00 


304  THE    ANNALS    OP    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

H.  W.  Morrison 10.00 

Hal  Cochran 1.00 

Sam  Cochran 1.00 

H.  N.  Samstag 5.00 

W.  Carnahan 25.00 

Bob  Butler 5.00 

M.  H.  Johnson 25.00 

J.  B.  Cowpland 15.00 

Harry  Heck 3.00 

Emma  Kramer 15.00 

J.  E.  Harbey 5.00 

Chas.  M.  Fowler 5.00 

Irene  and  Ella  Adams 2.50 

S.  B.  Adams  and  wife 10.00 

Joe  Calef 5.00 

W.  P.  Hutton 2.50 

Mrs.  B.  B.  Sterling  .. 2.50 

Poland  Williams 5.00 

Jno.  G.  Fletcher 25.00 

B.  L.  Goodrich 25.00 

H.  B.  Armistead 5.00 

W.  S.  Haines 10.00 

Eouis  Mast 5.00 

J.  H.  Sonthall 10.00 

T.  J.  Darragh 25.00 

C.  Jennings   5.00 

J.  A.  Van  Etten 5.00 

Francis  Johnson 5.00 

Jno.  A.  Mitchell 5.00 

W.  B.  Worthen 25.00 

G.  K  Peay 5.00 

Dr.  Lenow 5.00 

Mrs.   Griffith    5.00 

Dr.  Dibrell   10.00 

D.  W.  Jones 10.00 

Gray  Carroll    10.00 


REV.  J.  E.  H.  GALBRAITH. 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  305 

A.  D.  1863-1894.  Rev.  John  E.  11.  Galbraith  (Assist- 
ant Minister  of  Christ  Church,  to  Rev.  Wallace  Carnahan), 
was  born  September  2,  1863,  in  Bombay,  India,  where  my 
father  was,  at  that  time,  a  missionary  of  the  English  Church 
Missionary  Society,  and  in  charge  of  the  Robert  Money  Insti- 
tution, a  missionary  school.  I  was  baptized  in  the  Cathedral 
there ;  was  confirmed  in  Ireland,  of  which  my  parents  are 
natives  (father  being  of  an  old  Scotch-Irish  family,  and 
mother  of  English  parentage),  by  the  late  Archbishop  of 
Dublin,  R.  C.  French,  D.  D. ;  came  to  this  country  in  1883, 
having  been  educated  at  St.  Columbus's  College  and  Trinity 
College,  Dublin,  where  I  took  "honors"  in  classics ;  took  a 
theological  course  at  the  University  of  the  South,  Sewanee, 
Tenn. ;  was  ordained  by  Rt.  Rev.  A.  Gregg,  D.  D.,  Bishop  of 
Texas,  to  the  Diaconate,  at  Sewanee  in  September,  1887 ;  to 
the  Priesthood  by  Rt.  Rev.  J.  S.  Johnston,  D.  D.,  Bishop  of 
Western  Texas,  at  San  Marcos,  Texas,  September,  1888 ; 
spent  first  months  of  my  Diaconate  as  assistant  at  Christ 
Church,  Little  Rock,  Ark. ;  was  in  charge  of  San  Marcos 
and  Lockhart  from  May,  1888,  to  June,  1889;  returned  to 
Little  Rock,  as  assistant  and  in  charge  of  St.  Paul's  Mission 
and  Christ  Church  Academy,  and  in  June,  1891,  took  charge 
of  Lee  County  Mission,  Beattyville,  Ky.,  and  remained  five 
years,  during  which  time  a  handsome  stone  Church  wras 
erected  there;  left  Beattyville,  November,  1896,  and  am  at 
present  Priest  in  charge  of  St.  Peter's  parish,  McKinney,  and 
St.  Paul's,  Greenville,  in  the  Diocese  of  Dallas,  Texas ;  mar- 
ried Miss  Alice  Gray  Barnett,  of  Louisville,  Ky.,  October 
2,  1888.  We  have  four  children,  viz:  Richard  William, 
John  Gray,  Selina  Emma,  and  Hugh  Barnett. 


The  Brotherhood  of  St.   Andrew,  "For  the  spread  of 
Christ's  Kingdom   among  men,"   was  established    in   Christ 


306  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

Church  Parish,  by  the  Rev.  John  E.  H.  Galbraith,  Chapter 
No.  706,  December  28,  1891. 

Rev.  Wallace  Carnahan Rector, 

Rev.  Mr.  Galbraith Curate. 

The  Boys'  Department  of  Brotherhood  of  St.  Andrew, 
Christ  Church,  "For  the  spread  of  Christ's  Kingdom  among 
boys,"  was  organized  by  J.  M.  Bracey,  January,  1894;  char- 
tered January  9,  1896. 

Rev.  John  Gass Rector. 

The  Wardens  of  Christ  Church  during  the  incumbency 
of  Rev.  Wallace  Carnahan  besides  those  mentioned  are  given 
in  order : 

MAJOR   JOHN   DUNNING   ADAMS. 

Major  John  Dunning  Adams,  Vestryman  and  Senior 
Warden  of  Christ  Church,  was  born  in  Humphreys  County, 
Tenn.,  June  23,  1827.  No  member  of  the  parish  ever  left  a 
stronger  impress  upon  it  than  Major  Adams.  He  was  blessed 
with  a  good  heredity.  His  father,  Samuel  Adams,  of  Virginia 
stock,  was  president  of  the  Arkansas  Senate,  acting  governor 
of  the  State,  and  afterwards  State  treasurer.  He  was  a  man 
of  high  character  and  ability.  Major  Adams's  mother  was 
Rebecca  May,  of  an  excellent  Tennessee  family. 

John  Dunning  removed  with  his  parents  to  Arkansas  in 
1835.  He  received  his  education  in  the  common  schools  of 
the  State  and  an  academy  in  Little  Rock. 

When  18  years  old,  he  enlisted  in  the  Volunteer  Army 
of  the  United  States  for  the  war  with  Mexico,  as  a  member 
of  a  cavalry  company  in  Colonel  Yell's  Regiment.  He  was 
at  once  made  orderly  sergeant,  and  took  part  in  the  battle  of 
Buena  Vista,  where  he  was  severely  wounded. 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  307 

After  the  Mexican  War,  young  Adams  became  private 
secretary  to  Governor  Thomas  H.  Drew.  He  studied  law, 
but  never  engaged  in  its  practice. 

In  1848  he  married  Catherine  Yeiser,  daughter  of  Dr. 
Daniel  Yeiser,  of  Kentucky,  and  granddaughter  of  Philip 
Yeiser,  of  Baltimore,  Md.,  a  man  of  colonial  fame. 

Mr.  Adams,  for  the  greater  part  of  his  life,  was  engaged 
in  the  steamboat  business,  operating  extensively  on  the  Arkan- 
sas and  Mississippi  rivers.  He  also  invested  in  plantation 
interests ;  in  both  pursuits  he  was  eminently  successful. 

During  the  Civil  War  Major  Adams  having  promptly 
enlisted  in  the  Confederate  cause,  was  soon  made  quartermas- 
ter of  the  Trans-Mississippi  Department,  which  office  he  filled 
with  marked  success. 

In  1892  he  was  appointed  United  States  Commissioner 
for  Arkansas  in  the  World's  Fair,  held  in  Chicago.  The 
same  year  he  was  elected  Commissioner  of  Mines,  Manufac- 
tures and  Agriculture,  having  declined  overtures  for  nomina- 
tion as  Governor  of  the  State. 

For  many  years  Major  Adams  was  an  active  and  promi- 
nent member  of  the  Masonic  fraternity,  and  attained  the 
highest  degrees  of  that  order. 

In  every  relation,  and  in  any  position,  Major  Adams 
was  always  the  chivalrous  gentleman.  Brave,  generous, 
magnanimous  and  faithful,  he  was  a  modern  reproduction  of 
the  Ancient  Knight,  "without  fear  and  without  reproach." 

Major  Adams's  fidelity  to  his  friends,  and  his  benevo- 
lence towards  all  who  appealed  to  his  tender  heart,  became 
proverbial.  As  husband  and  father,  Major  Adams  was  most 
unselfish  and  devoted.  It  is  scarcely  a  figure  of  speech  to 
say  that  he  was  the  idol  of  his  family. 

Strong  and  noble  as  Major  Adams  was  in  his  business 


308  THE    ANNALS    OP    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

and  social  relation,  it  was  chiefly  in  his  relation  to  the  Church 
that  his  character  exhibited  its  most  beautiful  aspect.  He 
was  baptized  and  confirmed  in  Christ  Church  during  the  Rec- 
torship of  the  Rev.  Wallace  Carnahan,  whose  loyal  parishioner 
and  affectionate  friend  he  was  from  the  beginning  of  that 
Rectorship  until  Major  Adams's  death. 

He  was  elected  to  the  Vestry  in  1887  and  soon  afterward 
was  appointed  Senior  Warden,  which  post  of  duty  he  held  for 
the  remainder  of  his  life. 

In  the  judgment  of  this  same  pastor,  Major  Adams  was 
an  "ideal  layman,"  earnest  and  faithful  in  the  routine  duty 
of  a  Vestryman  and  Warden,,  he  rose  to  a  height  of  moral  gran- 
deur in  great  emergencies.  In  the  most  trying  and  moment- 
ous period  of  the  history  of  Christ  Church,  Major  Adams  sunk 
considerations  of  worldly  policy,  and  bravely  espoused  the 
cause  of  righteousness.  It  is  chiefly  to  the  courage,  wisdom 
and  self-sacrifice  of  Major  Adams  that  a  great  moral  revolu- 
tion in  the  parish  was  made  successful. 

Perhaps  the  most  conspicuous  point  in  Major  Adams's 
character  was  cheerfulness  in  adversity ;  no  misfortune  could 
dampen  his  spirits  or  sour  his  temper. 

After  a  painful,  but  short,  illness  Major  Adams  departed 
this  life  on  the  7th  of  December,  1892,  lamented  by  a  larger 
circle  of  friends  than  those  of  any  man  who  ever  lived  in 
the  State. 

He  leaves  a  widow  and  two  sons,  Samuel  B.  and  Dean 
Adams,  and  a  memory  redolent  with  the  "sweet  smelling 
savor"  of  a  grand  Christian  manhood. 

In  the  north  transept  of  the  new  Church  is  the  large  and 
beautiful  window  before  described,  representing  the  four 
evangelists,  with  their  symbolic  figures.  It  was  donated  by 
Major  John  D.  Adams,  but  bears  no  inscription. 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  309 

HIS   LAUGH   HIS   FORTUNE. 

IT    WON    HIM    FRIENDS   AND    FORTUNE   AND   DISCONCERTED    HIS 

ENEMIES. 

[  From  the  New  Orleans  Times-Democrat.] 

"Ever  hear  of  a  man  who  made  a  fortune  out  of  his 
laugh  ?"  said  a  guest  of  the  St.  Charles  last  night,  as  he  looked 
over  the  register.  "I  have  heard  of  girls  whose  faces  were 
their  fortunes,  but  I  knew  a  man  whose  laugh  was  positively 
his  fortune.  That  name — Sam  B.  Adams — on  the  register 
there,  reminds  me  of  a  man  who  made  a  fortune  out  of  his 
laugh.  His  name  was  John  D.  Adams,  and  he  was  the 
father  of  Sam,  the  gentleman  registered  there.  John  D. 
Adams  was  a  typical  steamboatman  of  Arkansas,  and  in  addi- 
tion to  his  steamboating  was  a  planter  of  extensive  interests, 
and  was  connected  with  other  business  enterprises.  He  was 
the  first  man  to  run  a  steamboat  up  the  Arkansas  River,  and 
his  name  in  that  State  to-day  is  a  synonym  for  geniality,  cour- 
ige  and  business  success.  He  was  very  successful,  and  his 
friends  used  to  attribute  his  success  to  his  wondrous  laugh.  It 
was  not  boisterous,  yet  loud,  and  was  so  musical  and  jolly  that 
one  could  imagine  old  Kris  Kringle  was  personified  in  him. 
And  his  good  humor  and  genial  disposition  were  contagious. 
Other  river  men  would  say  that  his  laugh  got  him  all  the  gov- 
ernment mail  contracts.  He  would  go  to  Washington,  get 
acquainted  with  the  man  who  had  charge  of  the  contracts 
and  he,  like  all  of  Adams's  new  acquaintances,  would  soon 
come  under  the  infection  of  his  magnetic  laugh,  and  form  a 
genuine  admiration  for  the  jovial  steamboatman.  He 
was  known  at  the  hotel  by  everybody,  and  was  pointed  out  for 
years  by  a  negro  porter,  to  whom  he  once  gave  a  $5  gold  piece 
as  a  tip  in  a  fit  of  jollification  over  the  closing  of  a  big  con- 
tract in  his  favor.  Amazing  tales  were  told  of  his  courage 
and  his  steamboat  experiences.  On  one  occasion  when  an 
accident  happened  to  his  boat  and  the  passengers  became 
panic-stricken,  he  calmed  them  as  if  by  magic  by  calling  them 

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310  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

children,  and  laughing  at  their  fear — his  famous  laugh  com- 
pelling confidence  and  mirth  by  its  very  melody  and  jollity. 
He  even  used  his  laugh  when  very  much  angered,  but  it  was 
of  a  different  character,  and  death  lurked  behind  it.  In  a 
steamboat  quarrel  with  three  desperadoes,  once,  he  denounced 
them  with  a  laughing  accompaniment,  a  cynical,  chilling, 
dangerous  kind  of  a  laugh,  his  eyes  glittering  like  a  snake's, 
and  his  forefinger  on  his  revolver,  ready  to  dash  out  the  life 
of  the  first  one  who  made  a  move.  One  of  the  desperadoes 
said  afterward,  in  speaking  of  the  occurrence,  that  he  never 
felt  so  queerly  before  in  his  life.  He  said  he  felt  as  though 
the  very  marrow  in  his  bones  was  being  frozen." — St.  Louis 
Globe-Democrat,  July  27,  1897. 

The  children  of  Major  John  D.  Adams  and  Catherine 
Yeiser,  his  wife,  are  Samuel  B.  and  Dean,  the  only  surviving 
members  of  a  group  of  five. 


SAMUEL   B.    ADAMS. 

Samuel  B.  Adams,  Vestryman  of  Christ  Church,  a  son 
of  Major  John  D.  and  Mrs.  Catherine  Yeiser  Adams,  was 
born  in  Little  Rock  on  the  17th  of  January,  1849.  He  was 
educated  at  the  school  of  Rev.  Pike  Powers,  in  Halifax 
County,  Va.,  at  the  Virginia  Military  Institute,  and  at  the 
University  of  North  Carolina.  As  a  member  of  the  Institute 
Cadet  Corps  he  took  part  in  the  valley  campaign  under  Gen- 
eral Breckinridge  during  tlie  Civil  War,  and  fought  in  the 
battle  of  New  Market. 

He  became  captain  of  a  steamboat  at  22  years  of  age,  and 
followed  that  calling  for  several  years  with  much  prosperity. 

For  a  year  Mr.  Adams  engaged  in  mercantile  business 
in  New  Orleans,  and  in  1877  started  the  firm  of  Adams  & 
Boyle,  insurance  agents.  For  ten  years  he  was  employed  by 
the  railroads  entering  Little  Rock  as  local  ticket  agent. 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  311 

Mr.  Adams  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic  fraternity,  and 
has  attained  the  highest  degrees  of  that  order. 

Mr.  Adams  was  twice  married,  first  to  Miss  Mary  Boyd, 
of  Halifax  County,  North  Carolina,  and  some  years  after  her 
death,  to  Miss  Sallie  Haney,  of  Youngstown,  Ohio. 

Mr.  Adams  was  elected  to  the  Vestry  in  1888  to  fill  the 
place  of  the  late  Hon.  W.  W.  Smith,  Judge  of  the  Supreme 
Court  of  Arkansas.  He  was  treasurer  of  the  parish  for 
two  and  one-half  years,  and  chairman  of  the  finance  committee 
for  several  years. 

It  is  largely  to  Mr.  Adams's  financial  ability  and  devo- 
tion to  the  parish  that  its  prosperity  is  indebted. 

As  chairman  of  the  building  committee,  his  most  recent 
zeal  has  been  devoted  to  the  erection  of  the  new  St.  Paul's 
Chapel.  Mr.  Adams  was  the  author  of  the  plan  which  was 
adopted  by  the  Vestry  for  bonding  the  Church  debt ;  a  measure 
which  gave  the  parish  relief  when  staggering  under  an  appar- 
ently hopeless  burden.  Mr.  Adams's  unselfish  and  delicate 
devotion  to  his  pastors,  has  won  for  him  the  name  of  "the 
Rector's  best  friend." 

At  this  time  (March,  1899)  Mr.  Adams  is  still  living, 
the  head  of  a  lovely  household,  composed  of  his  venerable 
mother  and  his  daughters,  Katharine  (Mrs.  Farrar  McCain), 
Irene  (Mrs.  Julius  L.  Witz),  and  Ella  Sibley. 

Dean  Adams  is  a  planter  on  the  Arkansas  River ;  mar- 
ried Amelia  Wright,  and  has  one  son,  John  D.  Adams. 

The  vacancy  caused  by  the  death  of  Major  John  D. 
Adams,  Senior  Warden  of  Christ  Church,  was  filled  by  the 
former  Junior  Warden, 


312  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

WILLIAM  ARMOUR  CANTRELL,  M.   D. 

A.  D.  1616.  The  Cantrell  or  Cantrill  family  is  of 
English  origin.  The  names  of  large  families  in  the  shires 
of  Berks,  Derby,  Suffolk,  Stafford,  Norfolk,  Wilts,  and  York 
are  mentioned  in  the  Heralds'  Visitations  Lists,  from  1528- 
1664,  as  belonging  to  the  gentry.  Ralph  Cantrell,  of  Bury 
St.  Edmunds,  Suffolkshire,  England,  received  a  baronetcy  in 
1616  from  King  James  I,  who  instituted  the  order  in  1611, 
and  was  granted  Armorial  bearings,  which  were  copied  from 
"Heraldry;  by  Woodward,  LL.  D.,  volume  1  plate  xxviii,  cut 
12"  in  Astor  Library,  ISTew  York,  by  a  friend,  for  the  writer  :* 

"In  1712  Rev.  William  Cantrell  procured  the  perpetual 
curacy  of  St.  Alkmund's,  Derby,  England,  and,  when  his 
benefice  was  created  a  vicarage,  Cantrell  was  its  first  vicar, 
holding  the  living  to  his  death.  On  the  pavement  within 
the  communion  rail  is  a  flag,  'for  the  Rev.  William  Cantrell, 
A.  M.,  fifty  years  vicar  of  this  Church.'  " 

From  the  "History  of  Derby,  by  Glover,"  the  following 
anecdote  is  quoted: 

"St.  Alkmund's  Church  is  supposed  to  have  been 
founded  as  early  as  the  ninth  century.  It  is  undoubtedly 
the  oldest  in  Derby.  *  *  *  Since  the  year  1712  it  has 
enjoyed  an  endowment,  bequeathed  by  a  gentleman  of  the 
name  of  Goodwin,  which  Mr.  Hutton  hands  down  to  us  in 
the  following  words: 

"An  old  bachelor  of  the  name  of  Goodwin,  descended 
from  an  ancient  family  in  Derby,  possessed  an  estate  of  sixty 
pounds  a  year.  'How  will  you  dispose  of  your  fortune/ 
says  Mr.  Cantrell.  minister  of  St.  Alkmund's.  'I  am  at  a 
loss,'  replied  Mr.  Goodwin,  'for  I  have  no  relations.'  Here 
was  a  fine  opening  for  Cantrell  to  increase  his  income  and  for 


*Mrs.  Harlan  P.  Christie  nee  Cantrill  of  Brooklyn,  New  York. 


WILLIAM  A.  CANTRELL,  M.  D. 

PRESENT   SENIOR   WARDEN. 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  313 

Goodwin  to  save  his  soul,  by  giving  that  property  to  pious 
uses,  which  he  could  keep  no  longer.  'My  Church/  said  the 
parson,  'stands  desolate ;  instead  of  being  a  place  of  worship, 
it  is  only  a  nursery  for  owls  and  bats.  No  act  of  charity 
can  surpass  that  of  promoting  religion.'  'Then  I  will  give 
ten  pounds  per  annum  to  St.  Alkmund's  at  my  death,  and  the 
residue  at  the  death  of  my  nephew,'  which  last  happened  about 
the  year  1734.  The  estate  is  situated  at  Plumley,  in  the 
parish  of  Eckington.  At  that  time  produced  sixty  pounds  a 
year,  now  about  two  hundred  and  ten." 

A  picture  of  this  Church  was  sent  to  the  annalist  with 
the  accompanying  note  from  the  vicar  in  charge,  Rev.  J. 
Stanley  Owen : 

"St.  Alkmund's  Vicarage,  Derby  England, 

"July  13,  1900. 
"Mrs.  William  Cantrell: 

"Dear  Madam — I  am  sending  you  the  best  unmounted 
cabinet  photograph  of  St.  Alkmund's  Church  that  is  to  be  had. 
I  need  not  say  that  the  present  Church  is  not  the  building 
Mr.  Cantrell  used  to  minister  in.  That  building,  known 
now  as  'Old  St.  Alkmund's',  was  taken  down  in  1842,  and 
the  present  Church  built  on  its  site,  at  a  cost  of  about  £12,000. 
The  photograph  sent  is  very  good  of  the  Church,  as  it  is  now, 
with  one  exception :  the  Vestry  at  the  southeast  corner  has 
been  removed  and  a  larger  suite  of  Vestries  built  in  its  place. 
We  should  so  like  to  have  a  memorial  to  Mr.  Cantrell  in  our 
present  fine  Church,  if  you  saw  your  way  to  erect  one. 
"Faithfully  yours, 

"J.  STANLEY  OWEK"* 

The  first  historical  mention  of  the  name  in  America  may 
be  found  in  Captain  John  Smith's  "General  Historie  of  Vir- 
ginia," where  William  Cantrell  is  mentioned  among  the  four- 


*See  Church  at  the  close  of  this  biography. 


314  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

teen  gentlemen  who  accompanied  him  on  his  "discoverie  of 
the  Chesapeake  Bay,"  in  1608. 

A.  D.  1609-1796.  In  Henning's  Statutes  or  the  Laws 
of  Virginia,  also  in  "The  Genesis  of  the  United  States,"  by 
Alexander  Brown,  the  name  of  William  Cantrell,  Gentleman, 
is  mentioned  among  the  number  of  grantees  and  an  incor- 
porator of  the  Second  Virginia  Charter,  dated  May  23,  1609. 

In  Ramsey's  "Annals  of  Tennessee"  is  found  mention 
of  Stephen  Cantrell,  Sr.,  grandfather  of  the  subject  of  this 
sketch : 

STEPHEN  CANTRELL,  SR. 

Stephen  Cantrell,  Sr.,  was  born  in  Abingdon,  Va.,  in 
1758,  and  came  to  Tennessee  from  North  Carolina  in  1776, 
being  then  in  the  service  of  the  Continental  Commissioners 
of  North  Carolina,  as  Captain  of  the  Guard.  Eor  his  zeal 
and  perseverance  in  the  discharge  of  his  duties  he  was 
awarded  a  grant  of  land  of  640  acres  on  Stewart's  Creek,  in 
Davidson  County,  Tenn.,  which  deed  was  placed  on  record 
in  the  register's  office  at  Nashville,  Davidson  County.  This 
land  grant  was  located  January  29,  1784,  signed  by  Richard 
Caswell,  Governor,  with  seal  of  the  State  of  North  Carolina 
affixed,  dated  October  8,  1787,  and  a  certified  copy  of  the 
same  may  be  had  by  applying  to  the  County  Clerk  of  David- 
son County.*  This  land  afterwards  lay  in  Sumner  County, 
Tenn.,  which  was  erected  in  1786  by  authority  of  North  Caro- 
lina, off  the  east  end  of  Davidson.  At  Fort  Blount,  East 
Tennessee,  Stephen  Cantrell,  Sr.,  met  and  afterwards  mar- 
ried, in  1782,  Mary  S.  Blakemore,  daughter  of  Major  John 
Blakemore,  of  the  famous  Donelson  expedition.  Stephen 
Cantrell,  Sr.,  and  William  Montgomery  were  the  first  repre- 


*Land  Grant  No.  64,  recorded  in  Book  "A"  page  207. 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  315 

sentatives  sent  from  Sumner  County  to  the  first  legislature 
in  Tennessee,  which  met  at  Knoxville,  East  Tennessee,  March 
28,  1796.  During  the  years  1792-93  he  commanded  a  com- 
pany as  captain  of  sixty-three  men  for  the  protection  of  the 
country  against  the  inroads  of  the  Indians. f 

A.  D.  1727-1854.  He  died  at  his  home  in  Sumner 
County,  February  5,  1827,  aged  68  years,  7  months  and  7 
days.  His  wife,  Mary  Blakemore,  was  born  in  North  Caro- 
lina, March  8,  1765,  and  died  August  2,  1849,  aged  84  years, 
4  months,  and  25  days.  Stephen  Cantrell,  Sr.,  and  Mary 
Blakemore,  his  wife,  had  eleven  children,  nine  sons  and  two 
daughters.  The  eldest  of  these,  Stephen  Cantrell  Jr.,  was 
born  in  Sumner  County,  Tenn.;  March  10,  1783,  and  was 
married:}:  at  Nashville,  Tenn.,  January  2,  1897,  to  Juliet  Ann 
Deaderick  Wendel.  He  was,  at  different  times  during  his  life, 
merchant,  commissary  and  quartermaster  during  the  Creek 
War ;  pension  agent  for  all  Middle  Tennessee  for  many  years ; 
county  magistrate ;  mayor  of  Nashville;  president  of  the 
Bank  of  Nashville,  and,  finally,  a  cotton  planter  on  the 
Arkansas  River,  where  he  died  of  pneumonia,  September 
5,  1854,  aged  71  years.  His  wife,  Juliet  Ann  Deaderick 
Wendel,  was  the  daughter  of  David  Wendel,  Sr.,  and  Susanna 
Deaderick,  his  wife,  born  in  Winchester,  Va.,  April  8,  1787. 
Her  grandfather,  David  Dicdrick,  Sr.,  of  Wurtemburg,  Ger- 
many, who  emigrated  to  the  United  States  before  1750,  was 
among  the  German  Pennsylvanians  who  settled  Winchester, 
Va.,  the  oldest  town  in  the  Shenandoah  Valley."'  His  name 
and  that  of  Samuel  Wendel,  of  Dort  (or  Dordrecht),  Holland, 
her  maternal  grandfather,  are  numbered  among  thirty-three 


tSee  the  Edition  of  1853,  page  589  of  "Ramsey's  Annals  of  Tennessee." 
tSee  marriage  notice  in  Parton's  Life  of  Andrew  Jackson,  Vol.  I,  page  246. 
♦See   Henry   Howe's   Historical    Collections  of   Virginia,   Rockbridge   County, 
page  451. 


316  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

of  these  emigrants,  who  built  the  first  Lutheran  Church  in 
that  town.  A  translation  of  the  Latin  document  placed  in 
the  cornerstone  of  that  Church  is  in  the  possession  of  her 
son, 

WILLIAM  ARMOUR  CANTRELL,  M.  D., 

the  subject  of  the  subjoined  sketch,  who  was  the  eighth,  in  a 
group  of  nine  children,  three  sons  and  six  daughters,  born  to 
Stephen  Cantrell,  Jr.,  and  Juliet  A.  D.  Wendel,  his  wife4 

A.  D.  1826-1900.  "He  was  born  at  his  father's  farm, 
near  Nashville,  Tenn.,  January  23,  1826.  At  a  later  date 
the  family  removed  to  the  city,  where  he  attended  the  primary 
schools  until  he  was  13  years  of  age.  He  was  then  sent  to 
Princeton,  N.  J.,  and  placed  at  Edgehill  Seminary,  where  he 
made  good  record  as  a  student.  While  there  he  met  with 
the  great  bereavement  of  his  life,  in  the  death  of  his  mother. 
Preceding  this,  came  the  financial  wreck  of  his  father,  whose 
estate  had  been  valued  at  $200,000.  He  was  recalled  and 
became  a  student  at  the  Nashville  University,  but  soon  began 
the  study  of  medicine  with  his  cousin,  Dr.  James  Wendel,  of 
Murfreesboro,  Tenn.  In  1845,  he  entered  the  medical 
department  of  the  University  of  Louisville,  Ky.,  where  his 
kinsman,  Dr.  Lunsford  P.  Yandell,  Sr.,  professor  of  chemis- 
try and  pharmacy,  was  one  of  his  preceptors.  Drs.  Gross, 
Short,  Cobb,  Drake,  Miller  and  Caldwell  occupied  chairs  at 
the  same  time,  and  Dr.  S.  S.  Nicholas  was  president  of  the 
faculty. 

Dr.  Cantrell  graduated  at  this  University,  March  6, 
1847.  The  year  following  he  spent  at  New  York,  where  he 
received  the  appointment  of  assistant  physician  in  Bellevue 


JThis  sketch  is  copied  from  "Bioeranhical  a'id  Historical  Memoirs  of  Central 
Arkansas,  published  by  the  Goodspeed  Publishing  Co..  at  Chicago,  Nashville  and  St. 
Louis  in  1889. 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  317 

Hospital.  He  was  then  appointed  to  relieve  Dr.  Winter- 
bottom,  as  physician  of  the  Nursery  Hospital  at  Blackwell's 
Island,  and  remained  there  during  the  summer  of  1848.  In 
the  following  year  he  went  to  New  Orleans,  La.,  where,  feel- 
ing qualified,  be  proposed  to  enter  upon  his  life  work. 

The  solitary  condition  of  his  father,  however,  impelled 
him  to  abandon  his  purpose.  After  one  winter  of  medi- 
cal experience  at  New  Orleans,  where  he  treated  yellow  fever, 
in  epidemic  form,  he  established  himself  at  Pine  Bluff,  Ark., 
in  the  vicinity  of  which  his  father  resided  as  a  cotton  planter, 
and  later  at  Little  Rock.  Here,  in  1849,  he  met  his  future 
wife,  Miss  Ellen  Maria  Harrell,  who  had  lately  arrived  with 
her  family,  from  Nashville,  Tenn.,  fleeing  from  the  cholera, 
then  decimating  the  city  of  Nashville.  On  February  13, 
1852,  Dr.  Cantrell  and  Miss  Harrell  were  married  in  Little 
Rock  by  the  Rev.  A.  R.  Winfield.  During  what  proved  to 
be  the  last  year  of  his  father's  life,  Dr.  Cantrell  took  his 
family  to  live  on  an  adjoining  plantation,  and  was  with  him 
at  the  time  of  his  death,  September  5,  1854.  Afterward  he 
resumed  his  practice  in  Little  Rock,  where  he  rapidly  built 
up  a  solid  reputation  as  a  practitioner. 

Dr.  Cantrell  has  filled,  successively  and  honorably,  the 
positions  of  city  physician,  county  physician,  president  of  the 
State  Board  of  Medical  Examiners,  president  of  the  College 
of  Physicians  and  Surgeons,  delegate  to  the  Medical  Associa- 
tion, at  Nashville,  Tenn.,  besides  attending  to  a  heavy  prac- 
tice. He  is  the  only  surviving  member  of  the  first  medical 
association  in  Little  Rock,  which  he  helped  to  organize.  The 
managing  board  included  R.  A.  Watkins,  M.  D.,  president; 
Wm.  A.  Cantrell,  M.  D.,  secretary;  A.  W.  Webb,  M.  D. ; 
Craven  Peyton,  M.  D. ;  George  Sizer,  M.  D.,  and  Corydon 
McAlmont,  M.  D.       On  May  23,  1861,  the  president  of  the 


318  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

Confederate  States  of  America,  at  Montgomery,  Ala.,  ap- 
pointed him  surgeon  of  "First  Arkansas  Mounted  Volun- 
teers," Colonel  T.  J.  Churchill,  commander,  in  the  Second 
Arkansas  Regiment  of  the  Provisional  Army  of  the  Confed- 
erate States.  In  this  capacity  he  served  in  several  engage- 
ments. 

After  Lee's  surrender  he  was  solicited  to  take  charge 
of  the  United  States  Post  Hospital,  at  the  Little  Rock  gar- 
rison. He  accepted  and  held  this  position  of  acting  assistant 
surgeon  during  the  command  of  Brevet  Major-General 
Arnold,  captain  Light  Battery  G,  Fifth  Artillery,  and  that 
of  Colonel  C.  H.  Smith,  Twenty-eighth  Infantry,  a  period  of 
five  years.  His  record  as  a  physician  at  this  hospital  added 
much  to  the  reputation  for  sagacity  and  skill,  already  earned. 
Very  lately  he  has  had  charge  of  the  medical  department  at 
the  School  for  the  Blind,  in  this  city,  and  was  appointed 
trustee  of  that  institution  by  Governor  S.  P.  Hughes.* 

In  1855  Dr.  Cantrell  became  a  confirmed  member  of 
Christ  Church  (Episcopal)  under  the  hands  of  Rt.  Rev. 
George  W.  Freeman,  who  was  his  constant  friend  until  death. 
He  served  as  a  member  of  the  Vestry  of  Christ  Church  during 
the  incumbency  of  Rev.  Andrew  F.  Freeman ;  of  Rt.  Rev. 
Henry  C.  Lay,  Bishop  of  the  Diocese  of  Arkansas,  and  Rec- 
tor of  Christ  Church ;  of  Rev.  J.  T.  Wheat,  and  Rev.  P.  G. 
Robert ;  was  Junior,  and,  later,  Senior  Warden  with  Rev. 
Wallace  Carnahan  ;  Senior  Warden  with  Rev.  John  Gass,  and 
Senior  Warden  with  Rev.  G.  Gordon  Smeade. 


While     thp     social     amenity    of    his     disposition     and 
grace  of  manner  have  caused  him  to  be  sought  by  the  most 


*He  is  now  (A.  D.  1900)  President  of  the  Comity  Board  of  Medical  Examiners. 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  319 

polished  circles,  the  earnest  simplicity  and  sympathy  of  his 
nature  have  endeared  him  to  the  most  humble  in  rank.  Like 
a  full  river,  bravely  bearing  its  own  burdens  to -the  sea,  yet 
dispensing  life  and  refreshment  on  each  side,  his  course  has 
shown  a  long  succession  of  private  and  public  services,  which 
prove  that  the  prominent  desire  of  his  soul  has  been  to  be 
useful. 

Mrs.  Cantrell  is  the  daughter  of  Rev.  Samuel  Harrell 
and  Ellen  Catherine  Collins,  his  wife. 

She  was  born  at  Princess  Anne  Courthouse,  in  Princess 
Anne  County,  Va.,  where  her  father  was  located,  being  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Virginia  Methodist  Conference.  He  died  at  Mead- 
ville,  Va.,  during  her  infancy,  and  is  buried  near  McKendree 
Church,  where  he  preached.  Mrs.  Cantrell  is  the  grand- 
daughter of  Rev.  Asa  Harrell  and  Rachel  Beeman,  his  wife, 
of  Gatesvillc,  in  Gates  County,  K  C,  formerly  of  Harrells- 
ville,  Hertford  County,  N.  C,  which  town,  now  in  decay,  was 
orginally  in  Chowan  County,  from  which  Hertford  was 
formed  in  1759.  Asa  Harrell  served  in  the  War  of  the  Revo- 
lution under  General  Horatio  Gates,  in  1780-81.  He  was 
ordained  Deacon  in  the  Methodist  Church  by  Bishop  Asbury, 
Gates  County,  N".  C,  and  was  ordained  Elder  by  Bishop  Mc- 
Candery  at  Somerton,  Nansemond  County,  Va.,  on  the  20th 
of  November,  1820.  He  was  the  son  of  Jesse  Harrell  and 
Elishua  Savage,  his  wife,  and  died  at  80  years  of  age,  leaving 
a  numerous  posterity. 

Mrs.  Cantrell  accompanied  her  widowed  mother,  brother 
and  sister  to  Nashville,  Tenn.,  where  she  was  educated  under 
the  direction  of  her  mother — a  woman  of  unusual  talent, 
superior  education  and  varied  accomplishments,  which  she 
employed  in  the  support  of  her  family,  as  principal  of  a  semi- 
nary for  young  ladies,  situated  on  Vine  street,  near  Union, 


320  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

Nashville.  Later  the  family  came  to  Little  Rock,  in  the 
spring  of  1849,  and  finally  settled  on  a  farm  on  the  Arkansas 
river.  Mrs.  Cantrell  is  a  graduate  of  the  Nashville  Female* 
Academy,  Dr.  C.  D.  Elliott  and  R.  A.  Lapsley,  principals, 
also  of  the  French  Academy,  M.  Audigier,  principal,  and  is  a 
proficient  in  music.  She  has  been  a  writer  for  magazines 
and  newspapers — her  earliest  contributions  at  16  years  of 
age,  having  appeared  in  Godey's  Lady's  Book.  She  repre- 
sented the  State  as  essayist  in  the  Woman's  Congress  at  the 
World's  Exposition  at  Chicago,  also  at  the  Exposition  of 
Nashville,  Tenn.,  and  has  served  as  State  Regent  in  the  Na- 
tional Society  of  Daughters  of  the  American  Revolution.  She 
was  confirmed  in  the  first  Christ  Church  in  1855  by  the  Rt. 
Rev.  George  W.  Freeman.  She  is  now  the  secretary  of  the 
Diocese  in  the  Woman's  Auxiliary  to  the  Board  of  Missions. 
The  children  of  Dr.  and  Mrs.  W.  A.  Cantrell,  all  natives 
of  Little  Rock  and  vicinity,  each  of  whom  has  received  a 
classical  education,  are: 

1.  Lillian — Mrs.  Joseph  Lovell  Bay,  of  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

2.  Ellen  May — Mrs.  Decatur  Axtell,  of  Richmond, 
Va.  At  Hot  Springs,  Va.,  their  summer  residence,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Axtell  have  been  the  chief  inspirers  and  contributors  in 
the  building  of  a  Church,  which  was  opened  for  service  on 
Good  Friday,  April  1,  and  consecrated  October  14,  1899,  by 
Bishop  Arthur  McGill  Randolph,  of  South  Virginia. 

3.  Daisy — Mrs.  Lucius  J.  Polk,  of  Galveston,  Texas. 

4.  Wendel — Who  died,  aged  11  months. 

5.  Isadore — Mrs.  Philo  H.  Goodwyn,  of  Galveston, 
Texas. 

6.  Bessie — For  some  years  secretary  of  "The  Little 
Rock  Memorial  Chapter  of  the  United  Daughters  of  the 
Confederacv." 


ST.  ALKMUND'S  CHURCH,  DERBY,  ENGLAND. 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  321 

7.  Deaderich  Harrell — Of  Little  Rock,  lawyer. 

8.  William  Armour,  Jr. — Of  Fort  Worth,  Texas,  rail- 


road agent. 

The  children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bay  are  Lillian,  Mansfield 
Cantrell,  Amy  Axtell  (Mrs.  Robert  Tyler  Sturgeon,  of  St. 
Louis,  Mo.),  Lovell,  Ellen  Virginia,  who  died  in  infancy,  and 
Margaret  Wendel. 

The  children  of  Colonel  and  Mrs.  Polk  are  Armour 
Cantrell,  Anne  Leroy,  Lucius  Junius,  Jr.,  Margaret  Wendel, 
Daisy  Cantrell,  and  Ellen  Harrell,  who  died  in  infancy. 

The  children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Goodwyn  are  Philo 
Hiram,  Jr.,  and  William  Cantrell. 


HON.  WM.  W.  SMITH. 

Hon.  Wm.  W.  Smith  was  Associate  Junior  Warden  of 
Christ  Church  with  Major  John  D.  Adams. 

A.  D.  1838-1888.  Hon.  Wm,  W.  Smith,  Associate 
Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Arkansas,  was  born  in  Cokes- 
burg,  Abbeville  County,  S.  C,  October  12,  1838.  He  was 
a  graduate  of  South  Carolina  College,  Columbia,  S.  C,  and 
married  Emma  Connor,  August  9,  1865.  He  came  to  Arkan- 
sas in  1866,  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1867,  and  entered  into 
partnership  with  ex-Governor  Simon  P.  Hughes  (at  present 
Associate  Justice  of  Supreme  Court)  in  the  practice  of  law 
in  the  same  year  at  Clarendon,  Monroe  County.  He  served 
at  the  bar  till  1882,  when  he  was  elected  one  of  the  Associate 
Judges  of  the  Supreme  Court.  He  died  December  18,  1888. 
His  widow  survives.  The  children  of  Judge  Smith  and 
Emma  Connor,  his  wife,  were  Julia,  Emma,  Dennie,  Frances, 


322  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

Annie,  and  an  infant  son,  William  Wright  Smith.  Only  two 
lived  to  be  grown.  Dennie  was  married  February  24,  1892, 
to  Harry  B.  Carter,  and  died  August  18,  1895,  leaving  one 
child,  Albert  Carter.  Judge  Smith  was  an  active  and  faith- 
ful member  of  the  Episcopal  Church.  He  served  as  Vestry- 
man and  Superintendent  of  the  Sunday  School  of  the  Church 
at  Helena,  Ark.,  where  he  lived  in  1877,  and,  during  his  resi- 
dence in  Little  Rock,  served  as  Vestryman  and  Junior  Warden 
in  Christ  Church.  As  a  staunch  friend  and  counselor,  he 
was  inexpressibly  prized  by  his  Rector,  Rev.  Wallace  Carna- 
han,  who,  in  a  time  of  parochial  distress,  was  indebted  to  him 
for  moral  support  and  affectionate  sympathy.  His  name 
adorns  these  annals  as  a  beloved  and  honored  Warden. 

In  the  fifty-first  volume  of  Arkansas  Reports  of  the 
Supreme  Court  the  opening  pages  are  set  apart  and  entitled 
"In  Memoriam."  Of  the  beautiful  tributes  there  presented 
by  distinguished  orators,  two,  by  those  who  knew  him  as  a 
Churchman,  are  transferred  to  these  pages : 

Mr.  Justice  Smith  died  on  the  18th  day  of  December, 
1888.  The  sad  intelligence  of  his  death  was  announced  to 
the  people  of  the  State  by  the  following  proclamation : 

Again  the  State  of  Arkansas  mourns  the  loss  of  one  of 
her  best  citizens. 

The  Hon.  W.  W.  Smith,  Associate  Justice  of  the  Su- 
preme Court,  departed  this  life  at  11  o'clock  p.  m.  the  18th 
instant,  at  his  residence  in  the  city  of  Little  Rock.  In  his 
death  the  family  has  lost  a  most  excellent,  kind  and  affection- 
ate husband  and  father ;  society,  one  of  its  most  valued  and 
best  beloved  members ;  the  bar  of  the  State,  a  modest,  earnest, 
able  and  upright  member ;  the  judiciary,  a  just,  conscientious 
and  able  judge ;  the  State,  a  citizen  of  great  worth,  faith- 
ful, patriotic  and  true  in  all  the  relations  of  life;  and 
the  Church,  a  meek,  devout  and  consistent  member.  In 
token  of  respect  for  his  memory,  the  flag  on  the  Statehouse  will 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  323 

be  lowered  to  half  mast  until  after  his  funeral,  and  the  offices 
of  the  State  government  will  be  closed  on  Thursday,  December 
20,  after  12  o'clock  m.,  that  the  State  officers  and  employees 
may  attend  the  funeral. 

SIMON  P.  HUGHES, 
Governor  of  the  State  of  Arkansas. 

Immediately  after  this  announcement  a  meeting  of  the 
bar  of  the  Supreme  Court  was  held  in  the  Supreme  Court- 
room. The  meeting  was  called  to  order  by  Governor  Hughes 
and  upon  his  motion,  Chief  Justice  Cockrill  was  requested  to 
act  as  chairman.  On  taking  the  chair,  and  after  making 
other  remarks  appropriate  to  the  occasion,  Judge  Cockrill 
spoke  of  Judge  Smith  as  follows : 

He  came  upon  the  bench  six  years  ago,  admirably 
equipped  and  prepared  for  the  discharge  of  the  duties  of  his 
office.  His  previous  training  had  been  rigid  from  close  and 
systematic  study.  Those  who  knew  him  had  no  apprehen- 
sion as  to  his  career  upon  the  bench,  for  they  knew  that  he 
brought  to  bear  upon  its  duties  an  aptitude  for  labor,  and  a 
well-trained  mind  that  was  clear  and  logical  and  never  uncer- 
tain in  its  conclusions.  They  have  not  been  disappointed  in 
the  result.  His  labor  was  gigantic.  Immediately  upon 
his  entry  upon  the  bench  it  was  perceptible  that  business  was 
dispatched  more  expeditiously,  and  even  the  most  critical  will 
be  compelled  to  acknowledge  that  his  work  was  well  done.  He 
may  have  committed  errors.  He  must  have  been  more  than 
mortal  not  to  have  done  so.  In  the  discharge  of  his  duties 
he  was  industrious,  unassuming  and  far  seeing. 

He  had  the  patience  and  willingness  to  hear  and  to  learn, 
which,  it  has  been  said,  is,  in  the  assemblage  of  judicial 
qualities,  perhaps  the  rarest  and  most  valuable.  His  lucid 
and  logical  manner  of  statement  is  apparent  to  all  who  have 
listened  to  or  who  have  read  after  him. 

His  judicial  style  is  simple  and  direct.  Tt  was  never 
diffuse  and  rarelv  ambiguous.       Tt  was  in  these  respects  but 


324  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

the  reflex  of  his  character,  for  he  was  ingenuous,  frank  and 
direct  to  a  greater  degree  than  any  man  I  have  ever  known. 
These  qualities,  aided  by  his  clear  perception  and  power  of 
mental  concentration,  enabled  him  quickly  to  detect  nonessen- 
tials in  a  cause,  and  penetrate  at  once  into  the  very  heart  of 
a  controversy— rarely  being  led  off  from  the  controlling- 
points  by  any  wavering  desire  to  follow  up  useless  investiga- 
tions. The  duties  of  his  office  circumscribed  the  limits  of 
his  ambition,  and  he  delighted  in  their  performance — not 
from  any  sense  of  pride  of  place  or  power,  for  he  was  of  a 
sturdy  mould  that  despised  ostentation,  and  recognized  more 
and  more  as  the  swift  years  went  by,  that  officeholding  is 
among  the  least  of  the  pleasures  or  personal  benefits  of  life. 
His  ambition  was  to  be  useful  to  his  fellow-men  by  the  faith- 
ful performance  of  a  sacred  trust.  No  standard  of  honor 
was  higher  or  sense  of  justice  more  robust  than  his.  He 
recognized  that  the  importance  of  an  upright  and  capable 
judiciary  cannot  be  overestimated  in  its  value  to  the  State. 
His  aim  was  to  lend  his  aid  in  perfecting  it  as  far  as  in  him 
lay.  His  effort  was  not  without  its  fruits;  but  what  he 
accomplished  was  not  by  the  exercise  of  the  qualities  I  have 
mentioned  alone.  It  avails  nothing  that  a  judge  is  only 
patient,  laborious  and  able.  There  is  another  quality,  with- 
out which  these  are  useless.  It  is  courage.  I  do  not  refer 
to  personal  courage,  though  Judge  Smith  was  endued,  as  I 
am  informed  by  his  war  comrades,  with  as  tried  a  courage  as 
ever  marched  up  to  the  roaring  throats  of  a  deep  ranged  artil- 
lery— but  I  refer  to  a  bravery  of  a  higher  and  a  rarer  kind — 
bravery  which  could  be  steadfast  under  the  criticism  of  friends 
and  against  the  assaults  of  enemies.  In  this,  no  man,  I 
believe,  in  modern  or  in  ancient  times,  excelled  him.  No 
popular  prejudice  or  partisan  clamor  could  move  him.  He 
was  zealously  devoted  to  duty  and  became  a  martyr  to  his 
devotion.  He  has  as  certainly  sacrificed  his  life  upon  the 
altar  of  public  service  as  did  ever  a  soldier  who,  at  his  coun- 
try's bidding,  meet  death  upon  the  field  of  battle.  Weary  and 
worn  with  the  travail  of  his  office,  he  has  dragged  out  the  past 
year,  bravely  battling  to  regain  the  strength  he  had  lost  in  the 


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service  of  his  people.  He  is  no  longer  trammeled.  He  is 
delivered  out  of  bondage.  Though  dead  he  speaks.  His 
voice,  through  his  decisions,  will  still  find  audience  among 
those  to  come  after  us.  His  impress  is  upon  the  bar  and 
the  judiciary,  and  through  them  upon  the  people.  His  influ- 
ence was  always  for  good ;  with  him  there  was  no  retrograde 
movement.  He  despised  hypocrisy  and  detested  wrong. 
While  the  hands  of  all  who  knew  him  are  raised  to  do  him 
reverence,  would  that  mine  had  the  cunning  to  bring  the 
sweetest  rose  of  all  the  field  to  deck  his  name,  for  none 
deserved  it  more.  I  trust  that  better  words  than  I  can  speak 
will  tell  how  his  loss  will  be  mourned  and  felt.  I  do  not 
think  it  the  exaggeration  of  praise  to  say  that  now,  when  he 
has  just  reached  the  midday  of  his  usefulness,  the  State  could 
have  better  spared  any  other  of  her  best  and  most  loyal 
citizens.  In  reverent  gratitude  I  do  thank  God  that  he  has 
blessed  this  land  with  the  birth  of  such  a  man,  and  made  it 
my  privilege  to  know  him. 

Mr.  W.  S.  McCain  was  appointed  secretary  of  the  meet- 
ing. Upon  motion,  the  chair  appointed  a  committee  on  reso- 
lutions, consisting  of  Messrs.  Sol  F.  Clark,  U.  M.  Rose,  E.  W. 
Kimball,  John  Fletcher,  J.  W.  Blackwood. 

The  chair  appointed  Judge  Rose  to  present  them  to  the 
United  States  Court ;  Mr.  George  W.  Caruth  to  present  them 
to  the  Supreme  Court;  Mr.  W.  C.  Ratcliffe  to  present  them 
to  the  Pulaski  Chancery  Court,  and  Mr.  E.  W.  Kimball  to 
present  them  to  the  Pulaski  Circuit  Court. 

The  resolutions  were  presented  to  the  Supreme  Court  by 
George  W.  Caruth,  late  United  States  Minister  to  Spain,  him- 
self a  faithful  Churchman,  in  the  form  here  quoted : 

Supreme  Court  of  Arkansas, 
Saturday,  May  18,  1889. 

Present:  Sterling  R.  Cockrill,  Chief  Justice;  Burrill 
B.  Battle,  Monti  H.  Sandels,  Wilson  E.  Hemingway.,  and 
Simon  P.  Hughes,  Associate  Justices. 

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326  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

Mr.  George  W.  Caruth  addressed  the  court  as  follows: 
May  it  Please  Your  Honors  : 

W.  W.  Smith,  the  Senior  Associate  Justice  of  this  court, 
departed  this  life,  after  a  long  illness,  on  the  18th  day  of 
December,  18SS. 

On  that  day  his  professional  brethren,  keenly  alive  to  the 
great  calamity  which  had  befallen  both  them  and  the  State, 
took  order  touching  his  death,  adopted  a  series  of  resolutions, 
feebly  expressive  of  their  feeling  of  admiration,  love  and 
respect  for  their  deceased  friend,  and  deputed  me  to  present 
them  in  this  tribunal,  that  they  may  be  writ  upon  your  honors' 
records,  there  to  remain  as  long  as  those  records  themselves 
remain,  as  an  earnest,  heartfelt,  but  inadequate  tribute  to 
that  upright  judge.  As  I  speak  these  words  I  am  painfully 
i in] tressed  with  the  frequency  with  which  death  has  flung  its 
awful  shadow  over  and  about  this  chamber.  When  I  came  here, 
but  a  few  years  ago,  to  be  enrolled  at  this  bar — and  oh,  how 
short  and  swift  have  been  those  years — there  sat  on  the  bench, 
English,  whose  kindly  features  look  down  on  us  from  yonder 
speaking  likeness ;  Walker,  whose  strong,  rugged  personality 
made  him  so  great  a  figure  in  our  jurisprudence,  and  Har- 
rison. English  and  Walker,  after  serving  their  country  with 
fidelity  and  ability,  now  sleep  with  their  fathers.  Harrison 
alone,  is  left.  Then  came  the  courtly  and  learned  Eakin,  who 
soon  wearied  of  the  struggle  and  went  to  join  the  wife  of  his 
youth,  who  had  preceded  him  to  the  great  hereafter.  There  at 
the  clerk's  desk  sat  Luke  E.  Barber,  whose  presence  here  was 
a  benediction  for  so  many  years,  and  by  his  side,  his  deputy, 
his  brother,  Gwyn ;  both  are  gone.  FolloAving  fast  and  quick 
after  these  distinguished  dead,  came  our  lamented  friend,  and 
another  judge  of  this  court  ceased  from  his  labors.  In  deliver- 
ing addresses  of  this  character,  one  is  naturally  apprehensive, 
lest,  following  the  admirable  maxim,  de  mortius  nil  nesi 
bonum,,  exaggerated  phrases  and  extravagant  eulogiums  would 
find  a  place.  But  in  this  instance  it  is  but  the  plain  truth 
when  I  say  my  apprehension  is  not  that  I  will  say  too  much, 
but  too  little;  in  a  word,  that  I  will  not  be  able  to  do  simple 


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justice  to  the  exalted  character,  great  abilities  and  lovable 
qualities  of  him  of  whom  I  now  speak.  No  language  I  could 
employ  would  be  too  strong  in  expressing  my  own  estimate  of 
the  man  and  the  judge. 

A.  D.  1838-1882.  Judge  Smith  was  a  native  of  South 
Carolina,  born  near  Cokesburg,  in  the  year  1838.  He  had 
the  benefit  of  a  college  education,  having  graduated  from  the 
South  Carolina  College  in  1859.  The  year  after  his  gradua- 
tion he  came  to  this  State  and  settled  in  Monroe  County.  At 
the  commencement  of  hostilities  in  the  late  war  he  joined  the 
First  South  Carolina  Regiment,  commanded  by  Colonel 
Gregg.  He  subsequently  served  as  Captain  in  the  Twenty- 
third  Arkansas,  under  Colonel  Adams.  When  the  war  ended, 
having  shown  himself  a  brave  soldier  and  skillful  officer,  he 
returned  to  Clarendon,  and  in  1867  formed  a  partnership  with 
Simon  P.  Hughes,  afterwards  governor,  and  now  a  justice  of 
this  court,  in  the  practice  of  law.  Judge  Smith  continued  the 
practice  of  his  profession  at  Clarendon  until  1877,  when  he 
removed  to  Helena,  where  he  remained  until  he  was  elected 
an  Associate  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Arkansas  in 
1S82.  In  the  spring  of  1888  a  pulmonary  disorder  discov- 
ered itself,  making  it  necessary  for  him  to  seek  relief  in  rest 
and  travel.  He  made  a  resolute  and  manly  struggle  with  his 
dread  antagonist,  undertaking  weary  journeying,  striving 
vigorously 

"To  hold  death  awhile 
At  the  arm's  end." 

Gallant  as  was  his  struggle,  it  was  fruitless.  To  him 
the  end  was  at  hand,  and  finding  himself  mortally  smitten  in  a 
distant  State,  he  came  back  to  his  home  to  die.  Surrounded 
by  his  family,  ministered  to  by  loving  hands,  without  a  mur- 
mur, in  full  possession  of  his  faculties,  fully  realizing  that 
the  supreme  moment  had  arrived,  he  calmly  bade  the  world 
farewell. 

Thus  passed  away  a  great  jurist,  and  as  clear  souled  and 
clean  handed  a  man  as  this  age  has  produced.  Great  intel- 
lectually, he  was  no  less  great  morally  and  spiritually.       My 


32S  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

acquaintance  with  him  began  in  1878.  To  have  known  him 
was  a  privilege,  and  to  have  had  his  friendship  I  account  one 
of  the  most  fortunate  events  of  my  career. 

He  was  an  admirable  practitioner,  splendidly  equipped 
in  the  learning  of  his  profession,  studious,  careful,  painstak- 
ing, and  the  very  soul  of  honor ;  but  it  was  as  a  judge,  in  the 
discharge  of  judicial  functions,  that  his  pre-eminence  was  so 
marked.  It  is  said  of  poets  they  are  born  and  not  made.  I 
sometimes  think  it  might  with  equal  truth  be  said  of  judges. 
The  profession  knows  that  to  be  a  good  lawyer  is  one  thing 
and  to  be  a  good  judge  is  another.  Something  more  is 

needed.  It  is  the  judicial  mind,  and  Judge  Smith  had  that 
to  perfection.  Tie  had  patience  without  limit,  and  although 
himself  possessed  of  a  quickness  of  apprehension  which 
enabled  him  to  grasp  the  situation  in  a  moment,  he  was  always 
willing  to  listen  to  the  humblest  and  dullest  of  us  with  a 
courtly  attention  which  made  it  an  absolute  pleasure  to 
appear  before  him. 

As  a  judge  in  this  court,  I  am  sure  I  do  but  speak  the 
unanimous  sentiment  of  the  bar  when  I  say,  no  one  could  be 
more  thoroughly  competent  to  discharge  its  high,  delicate  and 
always  responsible  duties. 

With  great  learning  ever  at  hand  and  ready  for  the  occa- 
sion, whatever  may  have  been  its  exigency,  he  was  always 
most  happy  and  felicitous  in  its  application  to  the  case  Under 
consideration. 

As  for  his  judicial  opinions,  from  the  first  to  the  last  they 
were  models.  For  purity  of  style,  for  clearness  of  thought, 
for  felicity  of  illustration  and  vigor  of  expression  they  stand 
among  the  finest  of  judicial  deliverances.  His  mind  was 
clear,  earnest  and  powerful,  and  all  his  faculties  severely 
disciplined. 

His  analytical  and  logical  powers  were  remarkable. 
There  was  a  delightful  directness  about  all  he  said.  He  called 
things  by  their  right  names,  and  no  man  had  to  read  twice  to 
ascertain  what  he  meant.  There  was,  in  addition,  a  simplicity 
of  expression  which  was  always  charmino;.  He  wasted  no 
words,  but  straightway  went  to  the  very  core  of  things.     This 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  329 

characteristic  directness  and  simplicity  was  exemplified  in 
one  of  his  last  earthly  utterances.  But  a  little  while  before 
his  dissolution  he  was  asked  if  he  was  conscious  of  his  condi- 
tion. His  response  came  clearcut  and  direct,  "Yes,  the  end 
is  near.  I  am  all  right."  That  was  all  he  said,  and  why 
should  he  not  be  "all  right  ?"  If  this  white-souled  Christian 
gentleman,  who  had  been  faithful  to  every  trust,  had  dis- 
charged every  duty,  could  not  afford  to  die,  who  could  ? 

The  Psalmist  asks :  "Who  shall  ascend  into  the  hill  of 
the  Lord  V  and  on  answering  seems  almost  to  have  had  our 
dead  friend  in  view :  "Even  he  that  hath  clean  hands  and  a 
pure  heart;  and  that  hath  not  lift  up  his  mind  unto  vanity, 
nor  sworn  to  deceive  his  neighbor." 

He  loved  the  truth  for  the  truth's  sake;  evenhanded 
justice  was  what  he  sought,  and  to  accomplish  that  no  amount 
of  labor  was  too  great,  no  extent  of  research  too  much.  His 
convictions  were  always  followed,  and  it  never  concerned  him 
how  his  conclusions  were  received.  He  neither  claimed  nor 
sought  applause.  His  was  indeed  a  striking  and  unique 
judicial  personality.  All  his  ambitions  were  centered  on  a 
faithful  discharge  of  his  duties.  I  have,  if  your  honor  pleases, 
no  hesitation  in  saying  that  nearly  as  any  one  I  ever  knew 
he  filled  the  measure  of  a  perfect  judge.  With  abilities  of  a 
character  to  have  commanded  attention  at  any  time  or  place, 
he  never  sought  distinction  in  the  political  world,  nor  was  he 
ever  induced  to  seek  any  of  its  glittering  prizes,  because  he 
loved  the  law. 

He  was,  under  all  circumstances,  a  gentleman.  No  man 
more  scrupulously  observed  those  courtesies  and  amenities 
which  do  so  much  to  soften  and  beautify  life.  No  man 
endeavored  more  earnestly  to  fulfill  all  the  duti*>e  of  society 
as  they  came  to  him,  and  a  truer  friend  or  one  more  willing 
to  oblige  could  not  be  found. 

He  despised  sham,  cant  and  hypocrisy,  and  was  as  open 
as  the  day,  being,  indeed,  an  "Israelite  in  whom  there  was 
no  guile."  His  life  was  blameless  as  became  a  devoted  Chris- 
tian, for  such  ho  was.     He  believed  implicitly  in  the  truth 


330  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

of  our  holy  religion,  lived  accordingly,  and  could  well  say 
at  the  end,  "I  am  all  right." 

We  have  laid  away  in  his  last  resting  place  our  distin- 
guished and  lamented  friend,  whither  he  went  in  the  full  faith 
and  belief  of  a  blessed  resurrection.  A  stately  and  beautiful 
column  of  the  State  has  fallen.  This  court  can  no  longer 
profit  by  his  wise  and  judicious  counsel.  His  family,  always 
so  precious  to  him,  is  deprived  of  his  protection  and  affection. 
But,  if  your  honors  please,  we  have  this  consolation:  We 
have  left  the  recollection  of  a  life  full  of  purity,  exalted 
abilities  and  duty  performed.  We  have  this  remembrance. 
Let  us  cherish  that — 

"For  memory  is  the  only  friend 
That  grief  can  call  her  own." 

Pursuant,  therefore,  to  the  request  of  my  brethren,  I 
now  present  these  resolutions. 

Mr.  Caruth  then  read  the  resolutions  adopted  by  the  bar 
of  the  Supreme  Court,  which  may  be  found  on  pages  36-39 
inclusive,  in  the  same  volume  of  reports. 

In  Church,  as  well  as  State,  this  Warden  was  the  pillar 
in  the  temple,  whose  top  was  finished  with  lily  work,  the 
name  of  which  was  Boaz — "In  it  is  strength." 


MR.  JOHN  WATTS  GOODWIN. 

A.  D.  1831-1893.  Mr.  John  Watts  Goodwin,  who  had 
for  some  time  served  as  treasurer  of  Christ  Church,  was  elected 
Junior  Warden  in  1893.  The  death  of  Major  John  D. 

Adams,  whose  office  of  Senior  Warden  devolved  upon  Dr. 
W.  A.  Cantrell,  occasioned  a  vacancy  in  the  office  of  Junior 
Warden.  This  has  been  filled  by  Mr.  Goodwin  during  the 
past  seven  years.  He  was  born  in  Nelson  County,  Va., 
August  6,  1831;  was  confirmed  in  1849  in    the    Chapel  of 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  331 

Jubilee  College,  Illinois,  by  Bishop  Chase,  and  was  married 
October  25,  1870,  at  Early  Grove,  Hiss.,  by  Rev.  W.  K. 
Douglass,  to  Elizabeth  Rose  Bailey,  who  was  born  August  5, 
1839,  in  Fayette  County,  Tenn.  She  was  the  daughter  of 
Dr.  Isham  G.  and  Susan  Bird  (Smith)  Bailey.  By  occu- 
pation Mr.  Goodwin  was  a  merchant,  and  later  the  treasurer 
of  the  Little  Rock  and  Memphis  Railroad.  Since  1887  he 
has  resided  in  Little  Rock.  The  children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Goodwin  are : 

(1)  John  Bailey,  (2)  William,  and  (3)  Bessie. 

Mr.  Goodwin's  grandfather  and  great-grandfather  were 
both  in  the  Continental  Army.  He  is  the  descendant  in  the 
sixth  generation  from  Major  James  Goodwin,  who  came  over 
from  England  and  settled  near  Yorktown,  Va.,  about  the 
middle  of  the  seventeenth  century,  in  the  following  line  : 

Son  of  James  DosweJJ  Goodwin,  who  died  June,  1869,  in 
Memphis,  Tenn.,  and  is  buried  in  Elmwood  Cemetery.  His 
wife  was  Catherine  (Watts)  Goodwin,  who  died  January  27, 
1851,  in  Ralls  County,  Mo.,  and  is  buried  near  Hydesburg, 
Mo.      Their  children  are : 

1.  Marie  Louise— Born  October  6,  1826;  married 
Leroy  P.  Stewart. 

2.  John  Watts — Born  August  6,  1831;  married  Eliza- 
beth Rose  Bailey. 

3.  Virginia  Ella — Born  January  31,  1843;  married 
Charles  T.  Hodges. 

4.  James  Overton — Born  June  14,  1846;  died  July, 
1876 ;  unmarried. 

5.  Mary  Catherine— -Born  May  27,  1849;  died  July, 
1860;  unmarried,  and  three  others  who  died  in  infancy. 

Mr.  Goodwin's  grandfather  was  Thomas  Goodwin  ;  born 
May  25,  1765,  in  Hanover  County,  Va. ;  was  married  in  17S9 


332  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

to  Temperance  Harris,  who  was  born  also  in  Hanover  County. 
She  was  the  daughter  of  Overton  and  Ann  (Nelson)  Harris. 
He  was  a  farmer,  and  in  religion  a  Baptist.  They  resided  in 
Nelson  County. 

Thomas  Goodwin  served  an  unfinished  term  of  enlist- 
ment for  his  father  in  the  Continental  Army,  and  was  a  Revo- 
lutionary pensioner.  He  died  in  Nelson  County,  Va.,  April, 
1838. 

Great-grandfather,  John  Goodwin;  born  November  IT, 
1735,  in  York  County,  Va. ;  married  to  Elizabeth  Dos  well-- 
born 1743,  a  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Rebecca  (Drummond) 
Doswell ;  she,  a  daughter  of  a  son  of  William  Drummond, 
governor  of  the  Carolinas. 

Great  great-grandfather,  James  Goodwin  ;  born  in  York- 
Hampton  parish,  York  County,  Va. ;  was  married  first,  to 
Diana  Chisman;  born  October  12,  1715  ;  a  daughter  of  John 
and  Eleanor  (Howard)  Chisman. 

Great  great  great-grandfather,  Peter  Goodwin,  was  mar- 
ried before  1097  to  Rebecca  Tiplady,  a  daughter  of  Captain 
John  Tiplady,  Justice  of  the  Peace  for  York  County,  and  son 
of  John  and  Ruth  Beale  Tiplady. 

MAJOR  JAMES  GOODWIN. 

Major  James  Goodwin,  the  head  of  the  family,  married, 
first,  Rachel ,  of  York  County,  Va.,  whose  tomb- 
stone on  Back  Creek,  says,  that  she  was  born  in  1630,  and  died 
May  23,  1600,  leaving,  as  it  states,  by  Major  Goodwin  five 
sons  and  two  daughters,  viz : 

1.  Robert;  married  Anne  . 

2.  John ;  married  Elizabeth  Moore. 

3.  Peter:  married  Rebecca  Tiplady. 


REV.  JOHN  GASS. 


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4.  Mail  hew. 

5.  Martin  ;  married  Barbara  . 


6.  Susannah',  married- Duke. 

7.  Elizabeth',  married Blinkliorn. 

Though  none,  perhaps,  place  a  higher  estimate  on  the 

value  of  an  honorable  ancestry  than  does  Mr.  Goodwin,  he 
is  yet  entirely  exempt  from  the  charge  of  resting  on  that  for 
his  advancement  in  life. 

"Who  serves  his  country  well  has  no  need  of  ancestors," 
and  in  every  charge  of  life  Mr.  Goodwin  has  endeavored  so  to 
perform  his  duty  that  he  may  leave  the  matchless  legacy  of  a 
good  name  to  those  who  come  after  him,  rather  than  to  look 
backward  to  those  who  went  before  for  support.  On  his 
own  merits  he  has  won  the  esteem  and  confidence  of  the  com- 
munity and  the  Episcopal  congregation. 

REV  JOHX  GASS. 

A.  D.  1894.  Rev.  John  Gass  succeeded  the  Rev.  Wal- 
lace Carnahan,  as  Rector  of  Christ  Church,  having  arrived  at 
Little  Rock,  October  4,  IS 94.  The  newspaper  chronicled  the 
event  thus  : 

Sunday  morning  (October  9)  at  Christ  Church  a  cordial 
and  flattering  reception  was  accorded  the  new  Rector,  Rev. 
John  Gass,  who  recently  came  hither  from  Charleston,  S.  C. 
The  distinguished  young  divine  made  his  first  appearance  in 
this  city  before  a  very  large  representation  of  Little  Rock's 
best  people,  all  of  whom  were  favorably  impressed  with  him. 
He  took  his  text  at  the  Sunday  morning  service  from  Exodus, 
iv,  2  :  "And  the  Lord  said  unto  him,  What  is  in  thine  hand  \ 
And  he  answered,  a  rod." 

The  eloquent  young  Rector's  discourse  was  assuredly  a 
splendid  introduction  of  his  force,  intellect  and  capability  to 


334  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

the  people  of  this  city.  He  is  one  of  the  youngest  divines 
in  the  country,  yet  he  ranks  with  those  much  older  than  he  is. 
He  speaks  without  notes,  and  with  a  voice  resonant  and  clear. 
When  fairly  inducted  in  the  various  duties  of  his  well- 
organized  charge  he  began  to  establish  what  he  deemed  of  first 
importance,  namely,  a  school  for  Church  girls.  As  doubts 
were  felt  and  expressed  as  to  the  healthf ulness  of  underground 
quarters  for  all-day  sessions,  and,  as  the  patronage  did  not 
justify  the  expense  of  renting  rooms  in  a  more  appropriate 
locality,  the  school  was  suspended  after  one  year's  experiment. 

A.  D.  1896.  On  Monday,  October  5,  1896,  Mr.  Gass 
opened  a  Bible  class  for  ladies,  with  thirty-three  members, 
and  also  one  later  for  gentlemen.  The  first  lived  to  be  the 
most  vigorous  arm  of  his  consecrated  service,  the  other  became 
merged  in  the  order  already  estatblished  by  Rev.  John  E.  H. 
Galbraith,  the  Brotherhood  of  St.  Andrew.  The  Bible  class 
did  more  towards  promoting  the  spiritual  growth  of  the  parish 
than  any  other  means  employed  during  Mr.  Gass's  Rectorship. 
Taking  "Blakeslee  Graded  Lessons"  with  written  questions 
and  answers,  as  a  Bible  study  manual,  he  enlarged  and  ex- 
pounded on  each  lesson  with  the  lore  he  had  accumulated  by 
diligent  study,  in  such  clear  style  and  with  such  winning 
friendliness  that  none  ever  went  from  the  weekly  meeting 
without  being  edified  and  strengthened  to  meet  the  demands  of 
life.  It  seemed  a  marvelous  thing  to  see  fifty  or  more  wives, 
mothers,  grandmothers,  and  maidens  seated  in  rows  before  him 
in  the  Sunday  School  room,  with  written  answers  carefully 
prepared,  eagerly  seeking  instruction  as  it  fell  from  the  gra- 
cious lips  of  this  gentle  teacher.  The  good  did  not  stop  there. 
His  familiarity  with  Scripture,  obtained  thus  in  constant 
study,  brightened  his  discourses,  like  a  thread  of  gold  in  a 
texture  of  fine  cloth,  and  his  hearers  were  sent  back  to  the 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  335 

field  of  the  world,  armed  with  "the  sword  of  the  spirit  which 
is  the  Word  of  God." 

A.  D.  1895.  In  Oatober,  1895,  the  Kector  issued  the 
first  number  of  a  parish  paper,  under  the  auspices  of  the 
Christ  Church  Chapter  of  the  Brotherhood  of  St.  Andrew. 
The  initial  page  is  here  given : 


OUR  PARISH. 

VOL.   1.  LITTLE  ROCK,  ARK.,  OCTOBER,  1895.  NO.   1. 

CHRIST  CHURCH. 

Southeast  corner  Fifth  and  Scott  streets. 
Rev.  John  Gass,  Rector. 
Rectory,  509  Scott  street. 


VESTRY  AND  OFFICERS. 

Dr.  W.  A.  Cantrell Senior  Warden. 

Jno.  W.  Goodwin Junior  Warden. 

H.  K.  Cochran Treasurer. 

W.  H.  Ragland Secretary. 

Sam  B.  Adams,  W.   F.  Wright,  J.  H.  Haney,   A.  A. 
Rutland,  J.  M.  Bracey,  J.  A.  Van  Etten,  Gordon  N".  Peay. 


SERVICES. 


Morning  Prayer  Sermon 11  a.  m. 

Evening  Prayer  and  Sermon 7  :30  p.  m. 

Holy  Communion,  first  Sunday 11  a.  m. 

Third  Sunday  at ' 7:30  a.m. 


336  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

SUNDAY  SCHOOL. 

9 :30  a.  m.  Rev.  John  Gass,  Superintendent ;  E.  H. 
Tobey,  Assistant;  A.  H.  Newton,  Secretary  and  Treasurer; 
Herbert  Wassell,  Librarian ;  Miss  Irene  Baird,  Pianist ;  Miss 
Hattie  Cowpland,  Violinist. 


MISSIONS. 


J.  J.  Huntley,  Superintendent. 
St.  John's  southeast  corner  Second  and  Rector  avenue. 
Albert  Wassell,  Assistant  Superintendent. 


St.  Paul's,  Eleventh,  between  Ringo  and  Cross. 
Mr.  Dunlap,  Assistant  Superintendent. 
J.  M.  Bracey,  Bible  Class  Leader. 


St.  Luke's,  Argenta. 
Herbert  Wassell,  Assistant  Superintendent. 


SOCIETIES  OF  THE  PARISH. 

BROTHERHOOD  OF  ST.   ANDREW. 

E.  H.  Tobey Director. 

Albert  Wassell Secretary. 

J.  M.  Bracey Treasurer. 


LADIES    AID  SOCIETY. 

Mrs.  Thos.  J.  Darragh President. 

Mrs.  Emma  S.  Lawson Vice  President. 

Miss  Sophia  Crease Secretary. 

Mrs.  T.  J.  Dill Financial  Secretary. 

Mrs.   G.   S.  Brack Treasurer. 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  337 

DAUGHTERS   OF   THE   KING. 

Mrs.  John  Gass Directress. 

Miss  Kose  Miller Assistant  Directress. 

Miss  Caroline  Peay Secretary  and  Treasurer. 


THE  WOMAN  S  AUXILIARY. 


Mrs.  Catherine  Skipwith Vice  President. 

Mrs.  John  Gass Recording  Secretary. 

Mrs.  R.  J.  Polk Corresponding  Secretary. 

Mrs.   W.   H.   Ragland Treasurer. 


CHANCEL   GUILD. 


Mrs.  G.  W.  Sappington President. 

Miss  Matilda  Jordan Secretary  and  Treasurer. 


A.  D.  1896.  The  Missionary  Society  had  been  doing 
splendid  work  in  the  parish  under  the  direction  of  the 
former  Rector,  Rev.  Wallace  Carnahan,  and  his  successor 
emulated  his  zeal  in  the  furtherance  of  the  devoted  object  of 
his  life.  At  the  twenty-fourth  annual  council  of  the  Episco- 
pal Church  in  Arkansas,  which  was  convened  in  Trinity 
Cathedral  May  8,  1896,  the  Bishop,  Rt.  Rev.  Henry  Niles 
Pierce,  reported  the  establishment  in  the  Diocese  of  a  branch 
of  the  Woman's  Auxiliary  to  the  Board  of  Missions,  with 
Mrs.  John  Gass,  Diocesan  Secretary,  under  the  direction  of 
the  general  secretary,  Miss  Julia  C.  Emery,  at  the  Church 
Missions  House,  Xew  York,  a  woman  whose  inspiring  zeal 
and  wise  administration  have  greatly  stimulated  the  interest 
and  enthusiasm  of  the  Church  in  Arkansas  on  the  subject  of 


338  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

domestic  and  foreign  missions.  Through  the  officers  of  the 
several  branches  she  has  transmitted  much  missionary  litera- 
ture and  statistics  that  have  greatly  enlarged  the  survey  of 
missionary  fields. 

Mr.  Gass  was  the  first  Rector  to  introduce  a  vested  choir 
of  boys.  These  were  supported  by  a  double  quartette  of 
adults.  On  Easter  Day,  April  14,  1895,  with  Mr.  R.  Jeffer- 
son Hall,  as  organist  and  choirmasteyr,  the  following 
members  marched  from  the  Vestryroom  across  the  Chan- 
cel to  the  main  aisle  and  from  thence  to  the  choir  stalls 
in  the  south  transept :  Henry  Gass,  Elbert  Brack,  Gott- 
lieb Brack,  Maurice  Cowpland,  Fletcher  Kimball,  Edwin 
Scott,  Lovell  Bay,  Robert  Johnson,  Tim  Allan  Smith, 
Corydon  Wassell,  Cruger  Smith,  Jesse  Dill,  Mack  Whiting, 
Charles  Lawson,  Will  Skidmore,  and  Charles  Polk.  They 
took  the  front  seats  of  the  choir,  those  in  the  rear  being  already 
occupied  by  Mesdames  Hall,  Bailey,  Cochran,  Davis ;  Misses 
Field,  Bobbins,  Lawson,  Bell,  Heath,  Parham,  Woodruff, 
Perry,  Goodrich ;  Messrs.  C.  P.  Harnwell,  Walter  Polk,  J.  L. 
Hornibrook,  Louis  Dodge,  Birkett,  Leonard  H.  Camp.  T. 
Mc  K.  White,  Harry  J.  Hall,  Dunaway,  and  Armistead,  in 
all  forty  choir  members.  A  brilliant  programme  of  music 
was  rendered. 

The  Easter  offering  for  Church  debt  was  $1,350,  the 
Sunday  School  offering  not  included. 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  339 

LIST    OF    CONTRIBUTORS    TOWARD    THE    PAY- 
MENT OF  THE  DEBT  ON  CHRIST  CHURCH, 
LITTLE   ROCK,  ARK.,  1S96. 

The  Vestry  of  Christ  Church,  Little  Rock,  issue  an 
annual  statement  of  the  Easter  Offerings  for  the  Church  debt. 
The  following  sums  were  given  on  Easter,  1896 : 

When  the  whole  debt  shall  have  been  paid,  a  statement 
will  be  printed  showing  the  total  amount  received  from  each 
contributor  toward  the  building  of  the  Church  and  the  pay- 
ment of  the  debt : 

EASTER  OFFERING,   1896. 

Adams,  Mr.  John  A $  10.00 

Adams,  Mrs.  Elvira 25.00 

Adams,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  S.  B 5.00 

Adams,    Mr.  C.  S 5.00 

Adams,  Mr.   J.  D 5.00 

Adamson,  Mrs.  J.  S 4.00 

Augspath,  Mrs .  4.00 

Armistead,  General  H.  B 5.00 

Alley,   Fannie    25 

Allen,  Mrs.  A.  D 5.00 

Barclay,  Mrs.  Sue 1.50 

Bond,  Mr.  J.  B.,  Jr 2.00 

Bovle,  Jno.  F 5.00 

Brack,  Mr.   and   Mrs.   G.   S 20.00 

Blocher,  Mrs.  Jesse   1.50 

Buchard,  Mr.  Geo.  F 25.00 

Bond,  Mrs.  S.  P 3.00 

Blackwood,  Mrs.  J.  W 1 0.00 

Bracey,  Mr.  J.  M 10.00 

Bailey,  Mr.  N.  Y . 5.00 

Bateman,  Mr.  II.  C 5.00 

Burkett,  Mr.  R.  L 1 .00 

Bentley,  Mrs.  E 5.00 


340  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

Butler,  Mr.  C.  M 10.00 

Bunch,  Mr.  T.  H 15.00 

Brack,  Miss  Imogene 2.00 

Brack,  Elbert  0 1.00 

Brack,  G.   S.,  Jr 1.00 

Brack,  Clifton  L 1.00 

Brodie,  Mr.  John 10.00 

Butler,  Mr.  Robt 1.00 

Bernays,  Mr.  Louis  C 2.00 

Cantrell,  Miss  Bessie 5.00 

Cantrell,  Dr.  G.  M.  D 5.00 

.Cantrell,  Mr.  D.  II 5.00 

Cantrell,  Dr.  W.  A 10.00 

Carroll,  Miss  Fannie 5.00 

Carroll,  Miss  Susie    5.00 

Calef,  Mr.  J.  B 10.00 

Carroll,  Mr.  Gray 10.00 

Cunningham,  Miss  Kate 5.00 

Churchill,  Miss  Juliette 1.00 

Clements,  Miss  Jennie 15.00 

Cochran,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  H.  K 20.00 

Church,  Mrs.  P.  K 5.00 

CofTman,  Mr.  C.  T 5.00 

Compton,  W.  A 10.00 

Casper,   J.   E.   L 5.00 

Cherry,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  L.  W 10.00 

Crease,  Miss  A.  S 5.00 

Cockrill,   S.   K 25.00 

Curtis,  Mr.  Zay  B 2.00 

Cowpland,  Mr."  J.  B 25.00 

Cohen,  Mrs.  C.  S 5.00 

Carroll,  Mrs.  C.  E 2.00 

Carroll,   Mr.    Casey    5.00 

Cockrill,  Mr.  Ashley 5.00 

Daughters  of  King 20.00 

Daughters  of  King 30.62 

Dibrell,  Mrs.  J.  A 10.00 

Dunklin,  Mrs.  W.   J 3.00 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  341 

Deshon,  Mrs.  E.  A 3.00 

Darragh,  Captain  T.  J 25.00 

Denie,  Mr.  M.  E 2.50 

Davis,  Dorothy    1.00 

Edwards,   A.   B 5.00 

Eberts,  H.  F.  H 10.00 

Fox,   Mrs.   A.   II 5.00 

Fox,  Miss  Gertie 2.00 

Fowler,  Chas.  F 10.00 

Fletcher,  Mr.  F.  M 10.00 

Fletcher,  Mr.  John  G 25.00 

French,  Mr.  Boss   1.00 

Galloway,  Mr.  D.  F.   S 5.00 

Goodwin,  Mr.  John  W 26.25 

Gass,  Eev.  John 10.00 

Gass,  Mrs.  John   5.00 

Griffith,  Mrs.  S.  L 10.00 

Goodrich,   Colonel  E.   L 25.00 

Goodwin,  Miss  Bessie 5.00 

Goodwin,  John  B 5.00 

Gress,   Mrs.   E.   B 10.00 

Gress,  Elizabeth 50 

Hammond,  Miss  Alice   1.50 

Hntt,  Mrs.  F.  E 5.00 

Iiutton,  W.  P 2.50 

Hennegin,  Miss 5.00 

Hempstead,  Mr.  Fay    5.00 

Hollenberg,  Mr.  F.  B.  T 10.00 

Hunter,   Mr.   A.   J 5.00 

Hodges,   John    3.00 

Harrington,  Jas.    2.00 

Harbey,  Mr.  J.  E 5.00 

Hamilton,  Eobt 2.50 

Jenkins,  Mr.  W.  E 2.00 

Jabine,  Mrs.  John 10.00 

Johnson,  M.  H 10.00 

Jordan,  Miss  Matilda 5.00 

Jennings,  Dr.  E.  G 10.00 

23 


342  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

Johnston,  A.  H.,  and  daughter 50 

Johnson,  T.  T 2.50 

Johnson,  Francis 5.00 

Johnson,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  H.  P 15.00 

Jennings,  Dr.  Ches 5.00 

Jones,  Mr.  H.  C 10.00 

Kendrick,  Mr.  Jos 15.00 

Kramer,  Miss  Emma   15.00 

Kramer,   Fred,   Jr 5.00 

Kramer,  Mr.  C.  J 10.00 

Knights  Templar 6.25 

Kirkwood,  Mr.  John 5.00 

Kirkwood,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  T.  C 3.00 

Leslie,  Mrs.  A 2.50 

Lawson,  Mrs.  E.  A 5.00 

Low,  Mrs.  Geo.  J 5.00 

Leland,  Mr.  E.  W 10.00 

Lee,  Mrs.  G.  H 10.00 

Lange,  Mrs.  A 3.00 

Ladies'  Aid    2.00 

Lenow,  Dr.  J.  H 5.00 

Ladies'  Aid 51.20 

Lewis,  Mrs.  C.  H 2.00 

Morye,  Mr.  C.  T 5.00 

Mayer,  Mr.  Max 2.00 

McKay,  D.  A 5.00 

Martin,  Joe 1.00 

Miller,  Mrs.  J.  K 25.00 

Miller,  Marguerite 25.00 

Miller,  Wiley  B 25.00 

Miller,  J.  K.1 25.00 

Miller,  Miss  Rosa 10.00 

Miller,  Miss  Amelia 15.00 

Meshon,  Mr.  Jeff 5.00 

Mitchell,  Mr.  John  A 25.00 

Martin,  Mrs.  Ered 5.00 

Matthews,  Mrs.  L.  B 2.00 

Morrison,  Jennie 2.00 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  343 

Matthews,  L.  and  E 50 

Morrison,  Mr.  H.  W 10.00 

Martin,  Mrs.  R.  W 10.00 

Miscellaneous  cash 112.74 

ISTeiley,  J.  B.,  and  wife 5.00 

"Norton,  S.  A 2.00 

O'Connell,  Miss  Fannie 5.00 

Perrie,  C.  T 2.50 

Powell,  W.  J 2.50 

Polk,  Mrs.   L.  G 5.00 

Polk,  R.  J 5.00 

Polk,  Eugene 5.00 

Parkins,  Mrs.  S 2.50 

Pillow,  R.  J 10.00 

Pierce,  Mrs.   H.   N 5.00 

Parham,  Major  R.  H 10.00 

Paine,   Mrs.   Oscar    2.00 

Pillow,  Mrs.  R.  G 2.50 

Polk,  R.   W 5.00 

Penzel,  Chas.  F 25.00 

Peyton,  Mrs.   C 5.00 

Peay,  G.  1ST 10.00 

Peay,  Mrs.  J.  C 5.00 

Rather,  Mrs.  H.  C 5.00 

Rutland,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  A 25.00 

Rickon,  F.   J.  H 2.50 

Reyburn,    Sam    5.00 

Ragland,  Mr.  W.  H 25.00 

Read,  Mrs.  Julia 5.00 

Scott,  Miss  Fannie 5.00 

Speed,  Mrs.  J.  S 5.00 

Sholars,  Dr.  A.  B 10.00 

Smith,  R.  E 2.00 

Sayle,  Mrs.  C.  H 5.00 

Southall,  Dr.  J.  II 10.00 

Sannoner,  J.  II 5.00 

Spears,  Miss  Annie 2.00 

Sannoner,  Mrs.   M.   L 1.00 


344  THE     ANNALS    OF   CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

Skipwith,  Mrs.  K 1 0.00 

Sappington,  Mrs.  W.  A 10.00 

Sundholm,  Mr.  Aug 5.00 

Sterling,  Mrs.  B.  B 2.00 

Smothers,  Mr.  L.  S 1.00 

Shall,  Miss  L.  S 25.00 

Sheltz,  Mrs.  M.  A 50 

Thien,  Mrs.  C.  E 1.00 

Taylor,  Dr.  C.  M 25.00 

Tucker,  Mrs.  Jennie 2.50 

Tunnali,  J.   K 5.00 

Van  Etten,  Mr.  J.  A 25.00 

Van  Etten,  Mrs.  G.  H 20.00 

White,  Juliette  B 35 

Wing,  Mrs.  CM. 5.00 

Worthen,  W.  B 50.00 

Woodcock,  F 5.00 

Wassell,  Mr.  A 5.00 

Whittemore,  Mr.  C.  H 10.00 

Wright,  Morehead 5.00 

Wright,  Captain  W.  F 10.00 

Williams,  Mr.  Nal 5.00 

Wassell,  Herbert 10.00 

Zimmerman,  J.  V.,  and     wife 7.50 

Total $1,778.16 

A.  D.  1897.  Two  years  later  Professor  R.  Jefferson 
Hall  conducted  the  Easter  Services,  with  the  following  sub- 
joined programme : 

Easter  Sunday  services  at  Christ  Church  to-day  will  be 
inaugurated  at  7  :30  a.  m.  with  a  celebration  of  the  Holv  Com- 
munion.  There  will  be  morning  prayer  with  sermon  and 
celebration  at  11  a.  m.,  Sunday  School  festival  at  3  p.  m., 
and  evening  prayer  and  song  service  at  8  p.  m.  The  choir 
will  be  composed  of  the  following  singers : 

Boys — John  Gass,    Jr.,    Henry    Gass,  Jack    Mitchell,. 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  345 

Jamie  Abbott,  Thos.  Howard,  Hal  Cochran,  Oscar  Schaad, 
Frank  Mitchell,  Sam  Cochran,  Randolph  Newton,  Clem 
Schaer,  John  Foulkes,  Percy  Skirving,  Joe  Kennedy,  Allie 
Hemming,  Gordon  Blackwood,  Gottlieb  Brack,  Chas.  Lawson, 
Elbert  Brack,  Will  Skidmore. 

Men — Messrs.  Robertson,  Brantley,  Waters,  Berbig, 
Martin,  Whiting,  Schaer,  Lescher,  Wilson,  McGee,  Field, 
Hornibrook. 

Ladies — Mrs.  Hall,  Misses  Bell,  Smith,  Lawson,  Ward, 
Johnson,  Pickering,  Carlisle,  Deane,  Freeman,  Brack,  and 
Mrs.  McGee. 

Mr.  Gass  was  a  pleasant  speaker,  and  delivered  some  in- 
teresting lectures,  representing  the  Association  of  Pastors  of 
the  several  denominations  in  the  city,  and  the  Young  Men's 
Christian  Association. 

One  of  his  sermons  that  he  deemed  worthy  of  preserva- 
tion in  the  form  of  a  small  printed  pamphlet  is  here  inserted : 

SERMON   PREACHED   BY   REV.     JOHN   GASS   IN 

CHRIST  CHURCH,  LITTLE  ROCK,  ARK., 

TRINITY    SUNDAY,    1805. 

In  the  name  of  the  Father,  and  of  the  Son,  and  of  the 
Holy  Spirit. — Matthew  xxviii,  19. 

To-day  is  Trinity  Sunday.  It  is  the  completion  of  the 
Christian  year.  All  that  has  gone  before  looked  forward  to 
this  truth ;  all  that  is  to  follow  will  be  drawn  from  it.  The 
one  purpose  of  the  life  and  work  of  Jesus  Christ  was  to  reveal, 
to  make  known  the  Father.  Advent  was  the  heralding  of 
the  cry,  "Behold  !  He  cometh  ;"  Christmas  was  the  incarnation 
of  the  Son  of  God.  Then  we  beheld  the  life  of  the  God-man 
in  all  its  sympathy  and  helpfulness.  Good  Friday  we  saw 
the  Lamb  of  God  offering  Himself  for  the  sins  of  the  world. 
Easter  was  His  glorious  victory  over  sin  and  death.     Then 


346  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

Whitsunday  was  the  giving  of  the  Promise,  the  coming  of  the 
Spirit  to  guide  us  to  God,  to  teach  us  the  truth  of  God  in 
Jesus  Christ.  So  to-day  we  stand  at  the  very  height  and 
limit  of  Christian  knowledge — the  Being  of  God  !  The  pur- 
pose of  all  Christian  effort  is  to  attain  the  vision  of  God,  to  be 
like  God,  so  to-day  we  contemplate  the  end  of  our  life — the 
Being  of  God  !  What  a  profound  thought !  When  the 
Prophet  Isaiah  had  the  vision  of  the  Lord,  he  said,  "Woe  is 
me  !  for  I  am  undone ;  because  I  am  a  man  of  unclean  lips,  and 
I  dwell  in  the  midst  of  a  people  of  unclean  lips ;  for  mine  eyes 
have  seen  the  King,  the  Lord  of  Hosts."  When  the  beloved 
John  beheld  his  ascended  Lord  in  glory  he  fell  at  his  feet  as 
one  dead.  What  shall  we  do  ?  Pray  to  the  Holy  Spirit  to 
make  pure  our  hearts  that  we  may  see  God.  ]NTow,  before 
going  on,  let  me  make  a  few  remarks  as  helps  and  safeguards 
against  error. 

(1.)  The  Trinity  is  not  a  doctrine  about  God  that  we 
must  accept  in  order  to  be  saved.  It  is  not  a  theory  about 
God  that  the  Church  or  the  clergy  have  formulated  to  force 
upon  the  laity.  Sometimes  I  think  persons  in  the  pews  think 
this.  It  is  not  necessary  for  salvation  to  accept  any  theory 
of  the  Trinity.  The  Trinity  is  not  a  doctrine  even  that  Jesus 
Christ  taught.  The  Trinity  is  a  fact  existing  from  all 
eternity.  So  the  Trinity  is  not  a  doctrine  about  God,  but 
the  revelation  of  the  Being  of  God.  (2.)  The  Trinity  is  not 
a  problem  in  heavenly  arithmetic.  Daniel  Webster  was  once 
asked  if  he  could  explain  the  Trinity.  He  replied :  "How 
can  you  expect  me  to  understand  the  arithmetic  of  heaven, 
where  three  are  equal  to  one  and  one  to  three  ?"  The  mathe- 
matics of  heaven  are  the  same  as  that  of  earth.  The  Trinity 
has  not  been  revealed  as  a  problem  to  worry,  to  puzzle  us, 
and  to  make  demands  upon  our  credulity.  (3.)  The  Trinity 
is  not  irrational.  It  is  not  a  doctrine  we  must  accept  in  blind 
faith,  feeling  all  the  time  a  revolt  and  protest  in  our  minds 
against  it.  If  it  is  a  question  between  our  reason  and  any 
theory  of  the  Trinity,  then  we  had  better  give  up  the  theory, 
because  reason  is  the  highest,  divinest  part  of  us,  and  to  be 
untrue  to  it,  is  to  be  untrue  to  ourselves.       But  happily  there 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  347 

is  no  such  question.  (4.)  We  must  be  humble.  We  are 
finite,  God  is  infinite ;  we  are  limited,  God  is  illimitable ;  we 
are  sinful,  God  is  holy.  We  cannot  expect  to  know  all  of 
God.  We  do  not  know  about  the  eternal  existence  of  God 
before  time  and  creation  and  therefore  cannot  speculate  about, 
or  try  to  define  it.*  The  Trinity  is  not  a  complete  definition 
of  God,  it  is  the  revelation  of  God  to  our  finite  understanding 
as  He  is  to  us.  Let  us  be  willing  to  confess,  "now  we  see  in 
a  mirror,  darkly ;  but.  then  face  to  face :  now  I  know  in  part, 
but  then  I  shall  know  even  as  also  I  have  been  known." 

Now:  (1.)  We  confess  the  unity  of  God.  The 
Christian  religion  springs  from  the  stock  of  the  Jewish  relig- 
ion. It  changes  none  of  the  truths  of  that  belief,  but  takes 
them  up,  brings  them  into  clearer  light  and  fulfills  them.  The 
Jews  were  witnesses  in  history  to  the  oneness  of  God.  Their 
first  and  greatest  commandment  was,  "I  am  the  Lord,  thy  God, 
thou  shalt  have  none  other  Gods  but  Me."  "Hear,  O 
Israel,  the  Lord  thy  God  is  one  God."  The  New  Testament 
never  speaks  of  but  one  God.  "One  God  and  Father  of  us 
all."  The  unity  of  God  is  the  very  foundation  of  the  Chris- 
tian religion.  We  confess  the  oneness  of  God  as  strongly  as 
any.  We  are  unitarians  not  tritheists  ;  monotheists  not  poly- 
theists.  !STow  in  the  unity  of  the  Godhead  we  say  there  are 
three  Persons.  The  cause  of  all  the  confusion,  debate  and 
schism  has  been  the  word,  Person.  I  think  it  would  be  well 
to  change  the  word  and  to  substitute  another  in  its  place.  The 
most  orthodox  of  theologians,  Calvin,  once  said  the  same.  It 
is  an  indefinite  word.  It  gives  cause  for  misunderstanding. 
It  does  not  mean  the  same  thing  in  theology  as  in  common 
speech  and  the  people  always  give  to  its  theological  use  their 
meaning.  The  early  teachers  of  our  religion,  when  they 
used  the  words  "three  persons,"  did  not  mean  by  the  word 


*We  only  know  God  as  revealed  to  us  in  His  relation  to  up.  We  cannot  try  to 
explain  how  God  existed  before  this.  There  are  certain  statements  that  the  Word 
or  Jesus  or  the  Son  was  before  all  things,  was  with  God.  was  Gori — had  the  Glory  of 
the  Father  before  the  world  was — is  the  image  of  the  invisible  God.  the  first-born  of 
all  creation.  John  I,  1,2;  John  XVII,  5:  Col.  I,  15.  But  from  these  we  cannot  con- 
struct any  doctrine  of  the  eternal  Trinity  before  time. 

"The  name  of  the  Holy  Trinity  expresses  all  that  has  been  made  known  to  us  of 
the  relation  of  the  Godhead  to  ourselves  as  we  are  created,  redeemed,  sanctified. 


348  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

person  what  we  now  mean.  Person  with  us  signifies  will. 
You  cannot  conceive  of  personality  without  will.  It  is  the 
very  center  and  core  of  the  person.  Take  any  three  persons 
you  know,  A,  B,  and  C,  they  signify  three  separate,  distinct 
persons,  because  of  their  three  separate,  distinct  wills.  jSTow 
this  has  been  applied  rigidly  to  the  Godhead  in  many  theologi- 
cal books,  and  to-day  it  is  the  popular  conception  of  God.  God 
the  Father  with  one  will,  God  the  Son  with  another  will,  God 
the  Holy  Spirit  with  still  another  will. 

The  will  of  God  the  Father  is  opposed  in  anger  to  the 
man ;  the  will  of  God  the  Son  is  moved  with  love  to  man  and 
He  reconciles  the  will  of  the  Father;  the  will  of  the  Holy 
Spirit  in  a  mysterious,  miraculous  way  works  upon  the  wills 
of  men.  So  we  have  really  three  Gods.  Unitarianism  was 
the  righteous  protest  against  this  mechanical  theory  of  God 
and  has  resulted  in  much  good.  ]NTow  in  truth  there  is  but 
one  will  in  the  Godhead  and  in  this  sense  really  but  one  Per- 
son— the  will  of  the  Fathe^  manifested  by  the  Son,  energized 
by  the  Holy  Spirit.  According  to  the  ancient  teaching  God 
ir;  one  in  essence  but  threefold  in  operation — Father,  Son,  and 
Holy  Spirit. 

(a.)  God  is  the  Father.  God  is  the  source  from  which 
all  things  come,  as  the  fountain  from  which  all  life  pours  is 
the  Father.  God,  the  Great  "I  Am"  of  existence,  the  eternal 
first  cause — God  in  the  primeval  essence  of  His  Being,  is  the 
Father.  We  do  not  know  all  of  God,  up  in  the  heights  we 
cannot  scale,  back  in  the  infinite  distances  we  cannot  see,  God 
is  the  Father.  "The  infinite,  eternal  energy  behind  all 
things,"  is  God  the  Father.  God  "whom  no  man  hath  seen 
nor  can  see"  is  the  Father. 

(b.)  God  is  the  Son.  But  God  is  not  self-contained, 
the  fountain  of  life  is  not  always  shut  up.  Ever  from  all 
eternity  God  has  been  and  is  manifesting,  revealing  Himself, 
ever  the  fountain  has  been  and  is  sending  forth  its  life.  That 
which  comes  from  and  is  begotten  of  God  is  the  Son.  The 
Son  is  God  manifesting  Himself,  "speaking  out  in  phenomena 
and  fact.'"  God  in  revealing  Himself  has  revealed  Himself 
perfectly  in  the  man  Jesus  Christ.        "In  him  dwelleth  the 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  349 

Godhead  bodily."  ''God  was  in  Christ  revealing  Himself 
unto  the  world."  Therefore  we  call  Jesus  Christ  the  Son  of 
God.      (Compare  John  I,  i,  1(>;  Colossians  I,  xv,  21.) 

(c.)  God  is  the  Holy  Spirit.  But  once  more  God 
has  not  left  the  world.  He  did  not  make  the  world  and  then 
leave  it  alone  as  a  mechanic  will  leave  his  work.  He  is  living, 
working,  energizing  in  the  world.  He  is  an  immanent  God. 
What  is  the  power  in  human  history  always  turning  and  shap- 
ing it  strangely  upward,  onward  %  What  is  the  influence 
in  human  lives,  speaking  to  conscience,  stirring  up  from  sloth 
and  sin,  arousing  to  action,  quickening  into  life,  producing 
holiness?  This  power,  this  influence,  is  the  Holy  Spirit  of 
God.  '  The  personality  of  the  Holy  Spirit  is  the  personality 
of  God  producing  holiness,  righteousness,  in  the  world.  "And 
this  God  is  indeed  the  same  God  who  is  beyond  and  above  all 
as  the  Father  and  through  all  as  the  Son."  (Compare  John 
xiv,  26;  Romans  v,  5;  Romans  xiv,  17;  xv,  13,  etc.) 

To  gather  up  our  truth  in  a  few  words:  ( 1.)  There  is 
God  above  all,  the  Source  from  which  all  things  come ;  this  is 
God  the  Father.  (2.)  Then  there  is  God  manifested  through 
the  world,  through  nature,  through  human  life,  supremely 
through  Jesus  Christ;  this  is  God  the  Son.  (3.)  And  then 
there  is  God  energizing  in  human  history,  living  in  human 
life ;  this  is  God  the  Holy  Spirit — ''one  God  and  Father  of 
all,  who  is  over  all,  and  through  all  and  in  all."  "The  Father 
is  the  Life  Transcendent,  the  Divine  Source  "over  all."  The 
Son  is  the  Life,  the  Divine  Stream  "through  all."  The  Holy 
Spirit  is  the  Divine  Inflow  into  the  individual  consciousness, 
giving  inspiration  to  the  conscience  of  each  separate  child  of 
the  Father  of  all  "in  all."'" 

]SFow,  brethren,  is  all  this  theory  and  idle  speculation  ? 
For  what  good  ?  Let  us  see :  (a.)  What  is  the  first  serious 
question  that  comes  to  the  human  mind  ?        Is  it  not  this, 


*This  note  is  written  for  any  theologian  into  whose  hands  this  sermon  may  come. 
This  may  be  said  to  be  Sabellianism.  According  to  that  heresy  the  Son  and  Spirit 
were  but  transient,  temporary  modes  assumed  by  God  for  a  purpose:  as  soon  as  that 
purpose  was  accomplished  these  modes  of  being  were  discarded.  But  in  the  above, 
Father,  Son  and  Holy  Spirit  are  eternal  operators  of  the  one  God.  God  is  not  an  ab- 
stract unit,  but  a  living  Being  with  absolute  relations  to  all  that  is — these  relations 
are  Father,  Son  and  Holy  Spirit.  The  Father  is  God  above  us,  the  Son  is  God  with 
us,  the  Holy  Spirit  is  God  in  us. 


350  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

What  is  the  power  back,  behind  all  things,  at  the  very  heart  of 
the  Universe,  from  which  all  things  come,  to  which  they  go  \ 
Is  it  blind  fate  ?  Varying  Chance  (  Eternal  force  %  Is  there 
any  power  at  all  {  Ever  the  mind  goes  seeking,  searching  to 
find  the  secret.  There  is  no  rest  until  it  is  found.  "Tell  me 
thy  name."  The  Trinity  declares  that  above  and  behind  all 
things  and  life  as  the  source  from  which  they  come,  as  the  end 
to  which  they  move,  is  the  Fatherhood  of  God.  Back  in  the 
veiled,  mysterious  infinity,  forward  in  the  unsolved  future 
there  is  nothing  that  can  hurt  us  because  the  Fatherhood  fills 
it.  (6.)  The  second  question  is  this:  As  we  look  out 
over  the  world  with  its  light  and  darkness,  its  good  and  evil, 
its  beauty  and  ugliness,  we  ask,  who  made  it  ?  Is  there 
dualism  \  Did  the  powers  of  good  and  evil  unite  to  create  it  \ 
Is  the  Devil  equal  to  God  as  the  builder  ?  The  Trinity 
declares  it  is  begotten  of  God.  The  power  that  governs  the 
world,  the  life  that  fills  the  world,  is  the  Son  of  God.  The 
world  is  from  God.  .  Hope  on.  Work  on.  "God  shall  be 
all  in  all."  (c.)  The  last  question  is,  as  we  look  out  on  the 
ceaseless,  selfish  strife  between  man,  the  dark  social  problems, 
sin  and  wrong  so  strong  in  human  lives,  we  ask,  Is  there  any 
higher  power  with  man  ?  Where  is  God  ?  The  Trinity 
declares  that  the  Holy  Spirit  of  God  is  present  in  the  history 
and  life  of  man  at  work,  energizing,  agonizing,  and  will  give 
victory  to  truth  and  righteousness  and  will  lead  men  on  to  the 
perfect  knowledge  of  God.  Oh !  fellow-men,  the  truth  of  all 
truths  for  the  world,  for  mankind,  for  us,  is  the  Trinity.  God 
above  us  as  the  Father,  God  with  us  as  the  sharer  of  our  life, 
the  bearer  of  our  woes,  the  partner  of  our  struggles,  our 
Brother  ;  God  in  us  as  our  Life,  our  Conscience,  our  strength — 
the  voice  of  our  prayers.  Indeed  "if  the  Trinity  is  not  in 
the  Bible  it  ought  to  be." 

"Teach  us  to  know  the  Father,  Son, 
And  Thee  of  both  to  be  but  one ; 
That  through  the  ages  all  along 
This  may  be  our  endless  song — 
Praise  to  Thy  eternal  merit 
Father,  Son  and  Holy  Spirit." 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  351 

A.  D.  1896-1898.  At  the  twenty-fourth  annual  of  the 
Episcopal  Church  of  Arkansas,  which  convened  at  Trinity 
Cathedral,  Little  Rock,  May  7,  1896,  Rt.  Rev.  H.  N.  Pierce 
recommended  the  election  of  a  Coadjutor.  Rev.  John  Gass, 
Dean  of  the  Little  Rock  Convocation,  chairman  of  the  stand- 
ing committee,  and  chairman  of  trustees  of  the  University  of 
the  South,  and  Rev.  C.  H.  Lockwood,  of  St.  John's  Church, 
Helena,  Dean  of  the  Helena  Convocation,  chairman  of  the 
board  of  managers  of  the  parochial  paper,  were  prominently 
mentioned  for  the  place,  also  the  Very  Rev.  Wm.  Montgomery 
Brown,  Archdeacon  of  the  Diocese  of  Ohio.  There  was  no 
election. 

At  a  special  session  of  the  Diocesan  Council,  which  met 
at  Trinity  Cathedral  December  1,  1897,  the  last  mentioned 
dignitary  was  elected,  and  the  majority  of  the  standing  com- 
mittee of  the  American  Episcopal  Church  signified  to  the 
committee  of  this  Diocese  on  April  5,  1898,  their  consent  to 
the  consecration  of  Archdeacon  William  M.  Brown  to  be 
Bishop-Coadjutor  of  Arkansas.  From  the  House  of  Bishops 
there  came  to  Archdeacon  Brown  at  Cleveland,  Ohio,  on  June 
3,  1898,  the  following  telegram: 

"Majority  of  Bishops'  consent  received  to-day. 
(  Signed.)  "W.  C.  DOAKE." 

Bishop  Doane  is  the  acting  executive  head  of  the  House 
of  Bishops.  Accordingly,  on  the  Feast  of  the  Nativity  of  St. 
John  the  Baptist,  June  24,  1898,  at  half  past  ten  o'clock,  in 
Trinity  Cathedral,  Cleveland,  Ohio,  Archdeacon  Brown 
was  duly  consecrated  Bishop-Coadjutor  of  the  Diocese  of 
Arkansas. 

About  three  months  previous,  the  Rev.  John  Gass  was 
tendered  a  call  from  St.  Luke's  Church,  Atlanta,  Ga.,  and  on 
April  22,  1898,  it  was  announced  that  at  the  Vestry  meeting 


352  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

of  Christ  Church  held  before  the  convention  of  the  annual 
Diocesan  Council  a  letter  was  read  from  him,  in  which,  with 
many  expressions  of  regret,  he  tendered  his  resignation  as  Rec- 
tor of  the  parish.  Chief  among  his  reasons  for  changing  the 
location  of  his  work,  was  that  a  serious  throat  trouble  which 
caused  him  great  and  continual  suffering  could  only  be 
relieved  by  a  change  of  climate.  This  resignation  was  ac- 
cepted with  profound  regret  by  his  Vestry  and  deplored  by 
the  congregation  and  community  at  large.  On  May  29,  1898, 
he  preached  his  farewell  sermon  at  Christ  Church,  and  on 
June  7,  1898,  he  arrived  in  Atlanta  and  entered  upon  the 
work  of  his  new  parish.  On  Saturday,  August  27,  the  St. 
Louis  Globe-Democrat  announced  the  death  of  Rev.  John  Gass 
in  South  Carolina,  where  he  had  gone  for  a  brief  vacation, 
from  acute  appendicitis.  Through  the  Arkansas  Gazette  on 
Sunday  morning,  August  29,  "the  news  came  as  a  thunderbolt 
from  a  clear  sky." 

Arrangements  were  made  for  a  memorial  service  at 
Christ  Church,  to  be  conducted  by  the  Rev.  C.  C.  Kramer,  of 
New  Iberia,  La.,  who  was  the  acting  Rector  at  the  time. 

This  was  held  on  Sunday,  September  4,  an  account  of 
which  was  given  in  the  Arkansas  Democrat  of  Monday,  Sep- 
tember 5,  and  is  here  appended  : 

HE  WAS  A  GOOD  MAN. 

LOVING    MEMORIAL    SERVICES    IN    HONOR    OF    REV.    JOHN    GASS, 
LATE  RECTOR  OF  CHRIST  CHURCH TRIBUTES  SO  TEN- 
DER  ALL   BORE   TESTIMONY   TO     HIS     GREAT 

WORTH   AS  A  MILITANT   CITIZEN   OF   THE 
LORD'S   COMMONWEALTH. 

Services  in  memory  of  the  late  Rev.  John  Gass  were  held 
yesterday  forenoon  in  Christ  Church,  of  which  he  was  so  long 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  353 

the  beloved  Rector.  The  attendance  of  parishioners  and 
friends  from  other  denominations  was  quite  large,  and  the 
services,  conducted  by  Rev.  C.  C.  Kramer,  acting  Rector, 
were  very  impressive  and  breathing  a  spirit  of  veneration  for 
him  in  whose  memory  they  were  come  together.  Added  inter- 
est attached  to  the  service  from  the  fact  that  this  was  the 
close  of  Rev.  Kramer's  connection  with  the  parish,  and  the 
people  have  learned  to  love  and  admire  his  acting  Rectorship. 
The  altar  and  chancel  were  beautifully  decorated  with  floral 
offerings,  crosses,  crowns  and  other  designs.  These  flowers 
will  be  sent  to  the  bereaved  wife  of  the  distinguished  divine, 
who  will  cherish  them,  though  faded,  for  the  tender  memories 
clustered  about  their  petals. 

At  the  conclusion  of  the  beautiful  Episcopal  service  a 
number  of  resolutions  were  offered,  which  are  given  below : 

BY    THE    VESTRY. 

"Whereas,  Our  beloved  Rector,  the  Rev.  John  Gass, 
was,  on  the  morning  of  August  26,  called  by  Almighty  God 
to  the  life  immortal,  and  we,  the  Vestry  of  Christ  Church, 
desire  to  give  expression  to  our  personal  loss,  as  well  as  that 
of  the  Church  Militant  in  which  he  served  so  faithfully, 

Resolved,  That  in  the  death  of  the  Rev.  John  Gass, 
Christ's  vineyard  on  earth  has  been  deprived  of  a  distin- 
guished laborer,  who  never  spared  himself  in  doing  his  mas- 
ter's service. 

Resolved,  That  his  eminent  qualities  of  mind  and  heart 
completely  endeared  his  life  to  all  who  tasted  of  its  sweetness 
and  sanctity. 

Resolved,  That  while  humbly  bowing  to  the  Divine 
will,  and  fully  believing  this  faithful  workman  has  been  sum- 
moned to  a  higher  service,  we  cannot  fail  to  express  the  irre- 
pressible sorrow  which  hovers  as  a  shadow  upon  those  who 
called  him  a  friend  and  pastor. 

Resolved,  That  his  labors  in  Little  Rock  as  Rector  and 
citizen  were  of  the  highest  philanthropic  and  beneficent 
nature,  and  our  city  has  been  so  abundantly  blessed  by  his 
four  years'  residence  amongst  us  that  our  people  will  never 
cease  to  hold  his  name  in  grateful  remembrance. 


354  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

Resolved,  That  to  those  dear  ones  who  knew  him  as 
wife  and  children,  whose  affliction  and  grief  are  of  the  heaviest 
and  severest  character,  we  extend  the  most  earnest  sympathy 
of  our  hearts,  and  we  pray  that  the  Divine  Comforter  will 
console  their  sorrow  and  dissipate  their  cloud  by  the  bright- 
ness of  His  presence. 

(Signed:)  C.  C.  Kramer,  Priest  in  Charge;  W.  A. 
Cantrell,  Senior  Warden;  J  no.  W.  Goodwin,  Junior  Warden; 
S.  B.  Adams,  F.  M.  Jefferson,  Treasurer;  Gordon  N.  Peay, 
Secretary;  G.  S.  Brack,  J.  M.  Bracey,  H.  K.  Cochran,  C.  T. 
Coffman,  A.  A.  Eutland,  J.  A.  Van  Etten. 


LADIES    AID  SOCIETY. 

In  compliance  with  a  special  request,  a  brief  synopsis 
of  the  life  of  this  distinguished  divine  was  prepared  by  his 
own  hand,  and  bestowed  as  a  parting  gift  upon  the  writer.  In 
its  simple  modesty  it  is  a  fair  epitome  of  his  character.  In 
its  record  of  work  done  there  is  no  doubt  of  his  having  been 
happy  in  performing  it,  in  reverent  imitation  of  the  Master. 
It  is  here  appended:       (Read  by  J.  M.  Bracey.) 

Rev.  John  Gass,  born  Greenville,  January  16,  1857; 
educated  at  Greenville,  and  the  University  of  the  South, 
Sewanee.  Tenn. ;  ordered  Deacon  in  Christ  Church,  Green- 
ville, S.  'C.,  by  Rt.  Rev.  W.  B.  W.  Howe,  October  29,  1882 ; 
first  sermon  preached  jSTovember  5,  1882,  in  the  same  Church ; 
married  Miss  Ivy  W.  Perrin,  of  Abbeyville,  S.  C,  January 
17,  1884;  ordained  to  the  Priesthood  by  Rt.  Rev.  C.  T.  Quin- 
tard  in  St.  Augustine's  Chapel,  Sewanee,  Tenn.,  July  13, 
1 884 ;  sermon  by  the  Chaplain,  Rev.  Thos.  F.  Gailor,  text 
II  Corinthians,  iv,  18  ;  first  charge  was  the  twin  parishes, 
Winsboro  and  Ridge  Springs,  S.  C,  from  June,  1885,  to 
October,  1886;  then  went  to  Augusta,  Ga.,  the  Church  of 
the  Atonement,  October,  1886,  to  June,  1890;  served  as 
assistant  minister  in  Grace  Church,  Charleston,  S.  C,  from 
June,  1890,  to  October,  1894;  was  Rector  of  Christ  Church, 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  355 

Little  Rock,  Ark.,  from  October,  1894,  to  June,  1898.  Dur- 
ing his  Rectorship  in  Christ  Church,  188  persons  were  bap- 
tized, 151  confirmed,  46  marriages  performed,  105  burials." 

When  the  news  of  his  death  reached  Little  Rock  a  meet- 
ing of  the  Ladies'  Aid  Society  was  called  for  Friday  after- 
noon, September  2,  at  the  Church,  by  the  vice  president,  Mrs. 
Francis  Johnson,  who,  in  the  absence  of  the  president,  ap- 
pointed a  committee  to  draft  resolutions  of  respect  and  sym- 
pathy.      They  are  here  appended : 

A  new  and  solemn  experience  has  come  to  this  associa- 
tion. For  more  than  thirty  years  it  has  been,  in  all  seasons, 
whether  of  success  or  failure,  the  main  reliance  of  the  Rector 
and  the  Vestry.  Many  times  the  members  have  met  to  unite 
in  expressions  of  sorrow  at  the  removal  of  an  associate  to  a 
higher  plane  of  service,  but  never  before  have  they  been  called 
together  to  mourn  the  passing  of  their  Shepherd  from  his 
place  among  them  to  the  home  eternal.  Only  three  short 
months  have  slipped  away  since  our  beloved  Rector,  Rev. 
John  Gass,  bade  farewell  to  this  fold  and  assumed  charge  of 
another,  but  as  his  official  successor  had  not  as  yet  assumed 
the  vacated  place,  and  as  four  years  of  zealous  leadership  and 
loving  guardianship  had  identified  him  with  this  parish  of 
Christ  Church,  Little  Rock,  it  seemed  that  this  congregation 
should  be  accorded  the  place  of  chief  mourner  in  the  far- 
reaching  processional  of  grief.  That  he  was  admired,  respected 
and  beloved  at  St.  Luke's  may  not  be  questioned,  but  only 
this  congregation,  who  knew  him  at  the  maturity  of  his  physi- 
cal strength,  in  the  completeness  of  his  intellectual  growth 
and  splendor,  and  in  the  perfection  of  his  goodness,  "when 
faith  and  love,  which  parted  from  him  never,  had  ripened  his 
just  soul  to  dwell  with  God,"  can  do  full  justice  to  his  memory. 
Whether  in  his  robes  of  office  at  the  font,  at  the  prayer 
desk,  pulpit  and  the  table  of  Holy  Communion,  at  the  mar- 
riage altar,  at  the  bedside  and  at  the  grave,  in  his  daily  walks 
through  the  streets  and  environs  of  the  city,  wherever  one  of 
his  flock  needed  ministrations,  he  seemed  always  animated 


356  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

with  the  same  single-hearted,  earnest  purpose,  the  saving  of 
souls,  so  that  in  his  warfare  with  "the  world,  the  flesh  and 
the  devil,"  while  not  a  Goliath  in  frame,  he  was  a  David  in 
might,  and  a  Goliath  might  envy  his  unheralded  deeds  of 
heroism.  Admirals  and  generals  may  be  commissioned  by 
man,  but  an  ajDOstle,  such  as  he,  is  only  commissioned  by  God. 
He  died  at  Pendleton,  S.  C,  at  the  residence  of  Colonel  B.  E. 
Sloan,  on  Friday,  August  26,  1898,  and  was  buried  on  Sun- 
day  afternoon  at  1  o'clock  at  Greenville,  S.  C,  the  place  of 
his  birth.  His  remains  were  taken  from  the  residence  of  his 
stepfather,  Mr.  H.  C.  Markley,  to  Christ  Church,  Greenville, 
where  impressive  services  were  held,  and  simultaneously  at 
St.  Luke's  Church,  Atlanta,  Ga.,  his  latest  charge.  He  left 
a  wife,  who  shared  his  highest  aspirations,  and  whose  greatest 
happiness  was  to  sustain  him  in  his  parochial  and  apostolic 
work.  He  left  also  a  group  of  lovely  children,  between  the 
ages  of  12  and  6 — Ivy,  Henry,  John  and  Catherine,  and 
Bessie,  the  daughter  of  a  deceased  brother,  who  had  become 
his  charge.  Their  best  inheritance  will  be  the  memory  of 
his  virtues.      As  companions  in  their  sorrow  be  it 

Resolved,  That  in  losing  our  Rector,  the  Rev.  John 
Gass,  we  feel  ourselves  bereaved  of  a  brilliant  teacher,  a  loving- 
counselor,  an  affectionate  friend,  and  a  worthy  examplar,  who 
has  passed  like  a  shining  light  to  the  courts  above.  May  we 
follow  in  the  path  he  made ! 

Resolved,  That  we  extend  the  united  sympathy  of  this 
body  to  the  bereaved  members  of  his  family,  and  the  joint 
prayer  that  God  may  "give  unto  them  beauty  for  ashes,  the 
oil  of  joy  for  mourning,  the  garment  of  praise  for  heaviness." 

Resolved,  That  these  expressions  of  condolence  be 
placed  on  the  records  of  the  society  for  our  remembrance  and 
admonition,  and  that  a  copy  of  the  same  be  forwarded  to  the 
widow  of  the  deceased. 

(Signed.)  MRS.  W.  A.  CANTRELL, 

MRS.  SUE  CREASE  PEAY. 
MRS.  J.  M.  BRACEY. 


THE    ANNALS    OP    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  357 

DAUGHTERS  OF  THE  KING. 

The  resolutions  of  the  Daughters  of  the  King,  Advent 
Chapter,  in  loving  memory  of  Rev.  John  Gass,  were  read  by 
Governor  Dan  W.  Jones  as  follows : 

For  years  we  have  walked  and  worked  and  sat  with  him 
in  heavenly  places.  He  was  our  head,  teacher,  counselor, 
friend.  He  consecrated  us  and  by  twTo  simple  vows  we  were 
pledged  to  higher,  deeper,  spirituality.  He  bestowed  on  us 
each  the  badge  of  our  order,  the  little  silver  cross,  bearing;  the 
Latin  inscription,  "Magnanimiter  Crucem  Sustine."  (Bear 
the  cross  courageously.) 

Week  by  week  we  met  for  prayer,  for  advice  and  for 
working  orders,  for  his  was  a  practical  religion.  "Love  is 
service." 

If  we  grew  to  be  an  inspiration  to  him  (and  we  are 
grateful  for  the  high  praise),  it  was  only  the  reflection  of  what 
he  was  to  us. 

The  life  and  character  of  John  Gass  were  an  espistle, 
seen  and  read  by  all  men,  telling  them  that  he  had  been  with 
Jesus  and  had  learned  Him. 

But  sad  tidings  come  to  us !  He  who  was  our  head 
has  been  taken  from  us,  and  our  hearts  are  filled  with  sorrow 
for  his  untimely  death. 

The  old  accustomed  places  which  he  frequented  are  elo- 
quent reminders  of  him — the  lecture  room,  where  were  spent 
those  never-to-be-forgotten  Lenten  mornings,  the  chancel  and 
pulpit  which  have  echoed  with  his  teachings,  the  altar  where 
was  broken  the  bread  and  blessed  the  chalice,  seem  yet  to  be 
filled  with  his  presence. 

Not  yet  can  we  realize  that  the  eloquent  teacher,  the  ten- 
der, generous  friend,  the  strong,  pure  soul,  has  passed  away. 

"We  have  lost  him;  he  is  gone: 
We  know  him  now;  all  narrow  jealousies 
Are  silent :  and  we  see  him  as  he  moved. 
How  modest,  kindly,  all  accomplished,  wise, 

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358  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

With  what  sublime  repression  of  himself, 
And  in  what  limits,  and  how  tenderly; 
Not  swaying  to  this  faction  or  to  that, 
jSTot  making  his  high  place  the  lawless  perch 
Of  winged  ambition,  nor  a  vantage  ground 
For  pleasure,  but  thro'  all  this  track  of  years 
Wearing  the  white  flower  of  a  blameless  life." 

To  the  one  dear  Daughter  upon  whom  this  sorrow  falls 
with  such  crushing  weight,  we  extend  our  tenderest  sympa- 
thies, and  for  her  our  prayers  ascend. 

"May  all  love, 
His  love,  unseen  but  felt,  o'ershadow  Thee, 
The  love  of  all  Thy  sons  encompass  Thee, 
The  love  of  all  Thy  daughters  cherish  Thee, 
The  love  of  all  Thy  people  comfort  Thee, 
Till  God's  love  set  Thee  at  His  side  again." 

JULIA   M.    BRISCOE, 
MABLE  RITCHIE, 

Committee. 


BIBLE   CLASS. 


Mr.  R.  J.  Polk  presented  the  following  resolutions  by 
the  Bible  class : 

Inasmuch  as  it  hath  seemed  well  to  our  Father  in 
Heaven  to  call  from  earth  to  paradise  our  beloved  Rector, 
teacher  and  friend,  Rev.  John  Gass,  we,  the  members  of  his 
Bible  class,  desire  to  add  our  tribute  of  love  and  profound 
respect  to  his  memory  and  to  express  our  grief  at  our  great 
loss. 

"For  nearly  three  years  it  was  our  privilege  to  meet  with 
him  weekly  for  the  purpose  of  studying  God's  Word,  and  it 
was  then  that  his  deep  spirituality,  universal  love  and  broad 
Catholicity  were  best  manifested.  There  we  learned  from 
him  to  know  God  as  our  loving  Father,  and  Jesus  Christ  as 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  359 

our  tender  elder  Brother,  and  to  realize,  through  searching 
the  Scriptures,  God's  constant  care  and  guidance  of  those  who 
do  His  will.  The  imparting  of  these  spiritual  truths  to  the 
members  of  his  loving  and  earnest  class  was,  as  he  said  at  our 
last  meeting,  the  work  he  had  most  loved  and  enjoyed.  At 
times  he  seemed  almost  inspired,  as  if,  with  St.  John,  he 
had  been  allowed  a  vision  of  the  holy  city,  New  Jerusalem,  and 
had  caught  the  reflection  of  its  glory.  He  loved  to  dwell 
upon  the  beauty  of  holiness  and  the  building  of  Christ-like 
character.  He  kept  ever  before  us  the  fatherhood  of  God 
and  the  brotherhood  of  man,  and  God's  faithfulness  in  the 
fulfillment  of  His  gracious  promises  to  those  who  keep  His 
commandments. 

"We  on  our  part  deemed  that  no  greater  privilege  than 
being  led  by  him  'beside  the  waters  of  comfort'  could  have 
come  into  our  lives,  and  we  desire  to  express  our  deep  appre- 
ciation of  the  blessing  we  enjoyed  in  being  members  of  his 
class  and  listening  to  his  words  of  wisdom. 

"To  his  loving  wife  and  faithful  companion  in  all  his 
works,  and  to  each  member  of  his  little  flock,  to  whom  he  was 
a  most  tender  father,  we  extend  our  heartfelt  sympathy  in 
their  bereavement.  We  grieve  with  them,  and  for  them,  and 
mourn  our  own  personal  loss  in  his  transition  from  earth  to 
the  mansions  of  God." 

"He  is  not  dead,  but  sleepeth. 
"Asleep  in  Jesus !  O  how  sweet 
To  be  for  such  a  slumber  meet; 
With  holy  confidence  to  sing 
That  death  has  lost  its  sting." 

MRS.  RUFUS  J.  POLK, 

Chairman . 


BY   THE    CONGREGATION. 


Mr.  C.  T.  Coffman  read  the  following,  signed  by  a  large 


number  of  the  members  of  the  congregation 


360  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

"The  undersigned  members  of  Christ  Church  congrega- 
tion wish  to  express  hereby  our  deep  and  sincere  sorrow  at  the 
decease  of  our  dearly  beloved  pastor,  Rev.  John  Gass.  The 
intelligence  of  his  death  comes  with  a  suddenness  that  is  ap- 
palling; its  unexpectedness  makes  our  grief  all  the  greater. 
During  his  pastorate  in  this  Church  he  had  become  endeared 
to  us  through  the  tenderest  ties,  and  it  is  difficult  to  realize 
that  we  will  see  him  no  more.  To  us  his  life  seemed  to  be 
an  epitome  of  all  the  Christian  graces,  and  his  soul  to  be  filled 
with  the  Master's  law  of  love,  which  he  so  eloquently  and 
forcibly  taught.  We  can  but  pray  that  the  Giver  of  all  good 
will  mercifully  comfort  his  stricken  family  in  their  great 
bereavement."  

FIRST    PRESBYTERIAN    CHURCH. 

Hon.  Jos.  W.  Martin,  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church, 
read  the  following  tribute  by  the  session  of  that  congregation : 

"Resolved,  That  we  have  heard  with  profound  sorrow  of 
the  death  of  Rev.  John  Gass,  late  Rector  of  Christ  Church, 
and  we  desire  to  record  here  our  great  love  and  our  high  re- 
gard for  this  noble  Christian  man  and  minister.  We  bow 
with  you  to-day  by  his  newmade  grave  and  shed  with  you  tears 
of  profound  sympathy  and  love.  May  the  God  of  love  minis- 
ter consolation  to  his  bereaved  and  loved  wife  in  her  great 
bereavement,  and  to  his  sorrowing  little  orphan  children. 
Though  recently  removed  from  us,  we  feel  with  all  good 
people  of  every  name  and  class  that  not  only  your  Church  has 
lost  one  of  its  most  valued  men,  but  that  his  untimely  taking 
off  is  a  loss  to  his  country  and  to  humanity.  Truly  a  great 
man  hath  fallen  in  Israel." 

S.  C.  BOSSINGER, 
Chairman. 

REV.  C.  C.  KRAMER. 

At  the  conclusion  of  the  reading  of  the  resolutions,  Rev. 
C.  C.  Kramer  delivered  an  eloquent  sermon  upon  the  text, 
"It  is  expedient  that  I  go  away." — John  xvi,  7. 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  361 

Following  is  a  synopsis  of  the  address : 

The  words  were  spoken  by  the  Savior  at  the  Last  Supper 
— words  freighted  with  the  spiritual  character  of  Christ.  The 
speaker  reviewed  the  inner  meaning  of  the  words  in  their 
objective  relations.  It  was  to  secure  the  incarnation  of  the 
divine  nature  that  it  was  expedient  for  Him  to  go  away.  It 
is  in  this  manner  we  contemplate  the  death  of  all  men,  such 
as  the  late  Brother  Gass.  He  had  given  sixteen  years  of  his 
life  to  the  militant  service  of  God;  but  its  effects  cannot  be 
measured  within  the  bounds  of  years — rather  by  the  flight 
of  an  unending  eternity.  God  created  humanity  because  he 
needed  humanity.  He  needs  our  love  and  He  needs  our  ser- 
vice. There  is  a  continuity  of  existence  not  bounded  by  this 
life.  In  tender  words  he  referred  to  the  loving  ministra- 
tions and  the  noble  service  of  the  deceased  Rector,  and  laid 
upon  his  tomb  a  chaplet  of  eloquence  that  touched  all  hearts. 
The  kingdom  of  God  is  the  atmosphere  enveloping  the  divine 
personality.  Service  is  to  open  the  eyes  of  the  world  to  see 
celestial  visions,  to  open  the  ears  to  hear  celestial  music — this 
was  the  mission  which  filled  to  the  full  the  life  of  dear  Brother 
Gass.  Great  qualities  of  mind  and  intellect  do  not  make  up 
the  sum  of  a  good  life — its  complement  being  great  and  tender 
heart  qualities.  Where  there  is  such  a  union  the  convictions 
of  man  are  thoroughly  saturated  with  divine  love.  Another 
quality  much  needed  in  this  life  is  manly  strength  and  earn- 
estness of  purpose.  Dr.  Gass  was  so  well  rounded  in  all  the 
quantities  of  tenderness  and  strength  that  all  men  could  look 
upon  his  life  and  say,  "He  was  a  good  man." 

The  sermon  was  followed  by  the  Eucharist,  of  which  a 
large  number  partook. 


WOMAN  S   AUXILIARY. 


The  tribute  by  the  "Woman's  Auxiliary  was  presented  by 
Mr.  Fay  Hempstead  as  follows : 

Whereas,       The  Woman's  Auxiliary  of  Christ  Church, 
Little  Rock,  realize  a  sorrow  that  words  can  poorly  express 


362  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

in  the  loss  of  their  beloved  Rector,  Rev.  John  Gass ;  even 
though  he  was  not  with  them  they  felt  that  they  could  rely  on 
his  valuable  advice  and  guidance,  and  that  his  interest  in  this 
organization  which  he  founded  would  always  be  maintained. 
But  God,  in  His  wisdom,  has  ordained  otherwise,  and  called 
him  to  his  reward  in  the  heavenly  mansions  and  left  them  to 
go  on  alone.  We  all  know  how  deeply  interested  he  was  in 
this  work,  therefore  let  us  do  honor  to  his  blessed  memory  by 
working  more  earnestly  and  follow  closely  in  the  path  he  laid 
out  for  us ;  therefore  be  it 

Resolved,  That  our  deepest  sympathy  be  extended  to 
our  lamented  Rector's  most  estimable  wife  and  children,  and 
our  own  prayer  is  that  God  will  have  them  in  His  tender 
care,  and  comfort  them  in  His  mercy. 

Resolved,  That  these  resolutions  be  placed  upon  the 
minutes  and  a  copy  sent  to  the  bereaved  family. 

MRS.   CAROLINE  COHEN, 
MRS.  SUSAN  PEAY, 

Committee. 


TO   THE   LATE   REV.   JOHN  GASS. 

BEAUTIFUL  SENTIMENT  ADOPTED  BY  THE  MINISTERS  ALLIANCE 
OF   LITTLE   ROCK. 

Tribute  to  the  memory  of  Rev.  John  Gass  by  the  Minis- 
ters Alliance,  of  the  city  of  Little  Rock : 

The  Ministerial  Alliance  of  this  city,  at  its  first  meeting 
this  fall  was  by  the  vacant  chair  again  reminded  that  since 
their  last  meeting  the  Rev.  John  Gass,  late  Rector  of  Christ 
Church,  had  been  called  home.  The  shadows  of  sadness  passed 
over  the  faces  of  all  present  as  if  they  had  fallen  from  a  real 
cloud  when  his  name  was  mentioned.  Hearts  were  touched 
with  sweetest  memories — his  most  genial  disposition,  his  sym- 
pathetic voice,  his  benign  face,  his  words  of  wisdom,  and  his 
fraternal,  Christ-like  spirit.  Tn  the  vision  of  our  faith  he 
is  not  dead,  but  glorified.       We  know  that  as  his  congregation 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  363 

left  behind  poured  out  tears  of  lamentation  that  his  parish- 
ioners who  had  passed  on  before  waited  for  him  in  delight. 

The  beautiful  words  of  Bickersteth  were  fully  realized 
by  this  sainted  pastor  when  he  entered  Heaven : 

k'ln  amaze 
I  asked  what  meant  such  gratulations  there, 
And  one  of  many  answered,  'From  thy  mouth 
We  heard  of  Jesus'  love,  and  thine  the  hand 
That  led  us  to  His  feet.'       It  was  enough ; 
For  all  the  Parent  and  the  Pastor  woke 
Within  me ;  all  the  holy  memories 
Of  bygone  days  flowed  in  a  refluent  tide 
Over  my  soul  once  more.      Some  I  had  known 
From  rosy  dawn  of  childhood ; 
Some  I  had  shepherded — Yea,  many.     And 
Some  in  after  years  had  poured  the  burden 
Of  a  wounded  spirit  into  mine. 
And  others,  dying,  heard  me  read  of  Him 
Who  on  the  cross  for  mercy  cried  to  Christ, 
Heard,  and  themselves  believed.      All  these  I  knew, 
And  quick  as  light  their  story  flashed  on  me. 
But  in  that  group  of  filial  spirits  came  many 
I  knew  not — part  of  that  great  store 
Of  unsuspected  treasure  Heaven  conceals. 
And  they,  too,  poured  on  me  beatitudes." 

We  express  to  the  bereaved  companion  of  our  dear 
brother  our  deepest  sympathy  and  most  fervent  love.  We 
commend  her  and  the  precious  children  into  the  hands  of  our 
most  merciful  Heavenly  Father.  He  in  this  great  habita- 
tion is  a  Husband  to  the  widow  and  a  Father  of  the  fatherless. 

The  committee  Avas  ordered  to  furnish  a  copy  to  be  spread 
on  the  minutes  of  this  alliance,  to  forward  a  copy  to  Mrs.  Gass, 
and  to  give  copies  to  our  citv  papers. 

S.  G.  MILLER 

Chairman. 


364  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

A.  D.  1 898.  The  Rev.  C.  C.  Kramer,  who  officiated  on 
this  occasion,  and  whose  profound  and  touching  discourse  was 
but  inadequately  reported,  is  Rector  of  the  Church  of  the 
Epiphany,  New  Iberia,  La.,  where,  for  ten  years,  he  had  been 
the  constant  officiate.  He  had  just  been  granted  a  three  months' 
leave  of  absence,  when  he  accepted  the  invitation  of  Rev.  John 
Gass  to  fill  his  vacated  pulpit  for  one  month.  While  per- 
forming the  duties  of  the  parish  Mr.  Kramer  won  the  respect 
and  regard  of  the  congregation,  by  his  scholarly  and  helpful 
sermons  as  well  as  by  his  winning  personality.  On  Sunday, 
July  3,  1898,  he  preached  at  Christ  Church  and  administered 
the  Holy  Communion. 

On  September  7,  after  a  brief  visit  to  Hot  Springs,  he 
left  for  Washington,  D.  C,  via  the  Lakes,  having  kindly 
furnished  the  annalist  with  an  abstract  of  his  life,  which  he 
pencilled  down  during  his  farewell  visit. 

REV.  C.  C.  KRAMER. 

A.  D.  1886-1894.  The  Rev.  Charles  Coleman  Kramer 
was  born  in  Baltimore,  Md.,  January  8,  1858  ;  attended  the 
Episcopal  Institute,  Washington,  D.  C,  where  he  graduated 
in  1876 ;  entered  the  same  year  St.  Stephen's  College,  Annan- 
dale,  N".  Y.,  and  graduated  in  arts,  1880,  taking  his  class  prize 
for  natural  sciences ;  was  educated  in  Divinity  at  the  General 
Theological  Seminary,  New  York  City ;  was  ordained  Deacon 
April  10,  1883,  by  the  Rt,  Rev.  J.  K  Galleher  in  Christ 
Church,  ~New  Orleans,  La.,  and  Priest  by  the  same  Bishop  in 
Christ  Church,  Napoleonville,  La.  He  was  a  missionary  in 
the  Diocese  of  Louisiana  from  his  ordination  as  Deacon,  until 
his  acceptance  of  the  Rectorship  of  the  Church  of  the 
Epiphany,  ISTew  Iberia,  in  1886,  serving  for  one  year  as 
Archdeacon.      He  was  Acting  Rector  of  Trinity  Church,  New 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  365 

Orleans,  from.  1892  to  1895.  He  returned  to  the  Church  of 
the  Epiphany,  New  Iberia,  as  Hector  in  1894,  which  position 
he  still  holds. 

REV.  JAMES  NOBLE. 

A.  D.  1886-1897.  Rev.  James  Noble,  a  young  Deacon 
at  Oklahoma,  previously  from  New  York,  was  called  to  assist 
Rev.  John  Gass,  Rector  of  Christ  Church,  and  made  his  first 
appearance  in  the  Chancel  at  Friday  afternoon  service,  June 
12,  1886.  Pie  was  admitted  to  the  holy  order  of  Priesthood 
by  the  Rt.  Rev.  H.  N.  Pierce  and  attending  Priests,  at  Trinity 
Cathedral,  May  11,  1897,  during  the  session  of  the  twenty- 
fifth  annual  Council  of  the  Diocese  of  Arkansas,  Rev.  John 
Gass  presenting  the  candidate.  On  the  15th  of  September, 
Rev.  Mr.  Gass  officiated  at  the  marriage  of  Rev.  James  Noble 
to  Miss  Mabel  Hedges  Simpson  at  El  Reno,  O.  T.  Mr.  Noble 
left  the  parish  October  1,  1897,  for  Marianna  and  Forrest 
City  to  take  charge  of  the  two  Episcopal  Churches  in  the  two 
towns.  On  December  17,  1897,  he  accepted  a  call  to  the 
Episcopal  Church  at  Tyler,  Texas. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Noble  have  had  one  son,  who  died  soon 
after  birth. 


Mr.  J.  J.  Huntley,  Missionary  Superintendent  and 
licensed  Lay  Reader  of  the  Christ  Church  Missions,  has 
kindly  supplied  the  data  of  his  mission  Avork,  which  is  here 
subjoined : 

ST.  PAUL'S. 

A.  D.  1890-1894.  St.  Paul's  Sunday  School  and  Mis- 
sion was  organized  in  1890  by  Rev.  John  E.  H.  Galbraith, 
under  whose  ministry  it  prospered  for  some  time.        After 


366  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

his  ministry  ended  it  began  to  decline,  so  that  in  January, 
1894,  there  were  but  six  attendants.  At  the  urgent  request 
of  Rev.  Wallace  Carnahan  Mr.  J.  Huntley,  as  Lay  Mission- 
ary Superintendent,  took  charge  of  it.  The  attendance  began 
to  increase,  and  continued  to  do  so  until  eighty  members  were 
enrolled.  Much  of  its  success  was  due  to  the  faithful  attend- 
ance for  a  year  or  more  of  Miss  Bessie  Cantrell,  whose  ability 
as  organist  and  teacher  was  so  willingly  given.  Monthly 
entertainments  of  a  Churchly  character  were  given  in  this,  as 
in  all  the  other  missions.  The  Rev.  John  Gass,  as  Rector  of 
Christ  Church,  and  its  missions,  by  his  loving  oversight,  did 
much  to  help  this,  as  well  as  the  other  missions. 

ST.  JOHN'S  MISSION. 

A.  D.  1892-1894.  St.  John's  Mission  was  organized 
in  the  summer  of  1892,  as  a  Union  Sunday  School.  In  the 
spring  of  1894  the  superintendent,  teachers,  and  scholars 
requested  the  Rev.  Wallace  Carnahan  to  receive  in  his  charge 
as  Rector  of  Christ  Church,  the  mission,  which  was  duly  so 
received.  The  roll  of  membership  was  at  this  time  seventy. 
Twelve  baptisms  and  two  confirmations  was  only  a  small  part 
of  the  good  done  in  this  mission. 

ST.  LUKE'S. 

A.  D.  1894.  St.  Luke's  was  organized  in  North  Little 
Rock  in  June,  1894,  in  a  private  parlor,  with  twenty  scholars 
and  four  teachers.  The  attendance  soon  averaged  thirty 
scholars,  and  the  communicants  twenty.  In  this  mission 
there  have  been  a  large  number  of  ba])tisms  and  six  confirma- 
tions. 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  367 

ST.  BARNABAS'S— BARIXG  CROSS. 

A.  D.  1 894.  St.  Barnabas's  Mission  was  organized  in  a 
private  house  on  the  30th  of  December;,  1894,,  with  six 
scholars  and  two  teachers.  The  attendance  continued  to 

increase  until  there  was  an  average  attendance  of  thirty 
scholars.  After  two  years'  successful  operation,  and  during 
the  ministry  of  Rev.  James  Noble,  Assistant  Minister  of  Rev. 
John  Gass,  of  Christ  Church,  the  Sunday  School  was  closed 
for  nearly  two  years.  In  May,  1898,  it  was  reopened  with 
the  ultimate  intention  of  making  it  a  Diocesan  Mission.  The 
Bishop  officiated  the  fifth  Sunday  after  Easter  and  baptized 
three  children.  The  Bishop  again  officiated,  baptizing  five 
children  of  different  ages,  and  confirming  two  adults.  St. 
Barnabas's  has  now  twenty-three  baptized  children  and  eleven 
communicants. 

ST.  PAUL'S. 

A.  D.  1 896.  St.  Paul's  Mission — house  and  lot  on 
Eleventh  and  Pulaski  streets — which  had  been  the  investment 
of  the  Ladies'  Aid  Society  ($1,100),  was  sold  for  half  that 
amount  by  the  Vestry  of  Christ  Church,  in  whom  the  title 
of  the  property  was  vested,  and  in  December,  1896,  a  lot  was 
bought  for  St.  Paul's  Parish  by  the  Rev.  James  Noble,  As- 
sistant Minister  of  Christ  Church,  situated  on  Fifth  and 
Victory  streets,  which  location  was  then  adjudged  to  be  more 
favorable  for  the  growth  of  a  congregation.  A  neat  brick 
chapel  now  stands  on  that  corner,  which  was  formerly  occu- 
pied by  a  saloon,  and  several  devout  and  active  members  of 
the  Church  have  collected  together  the  Sunday  School,  which 
had  been  scattered  after  the  sale  of  the  original  mission 
chapel.  The  present  Rector  holds  service  there  on  Sunday 
afternoons. 


368  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

In  1896  Mr.  Gass  assumed  the  editorial  charge  of  The 
Arkansas  Missionary,  published  quarterly  in  the  months  of 
February,  May,  August,  and  November,  in  behalf  of  the 
Diocese,  with  the  subjoined  list  of  the  Clergy  of  the  Diocese : 

LIST  OF  THE  CLERGY  OF  THE  DIOCESE. 

BISHOP. 

Rt.  Rev.  Henry  Niles  Pierce,  D.  D.,  LL.  D Little  Rock. 

PRIESTS. 

Rev.  W.  T.  Allen Fort  Smith. 

Rev.  C.  E.  Cabaniss Pine  Bluff. 

Rev.  D.  I.  Hobbs Little  Rock. 

Rev.  G.  W.  Flowers Van  Buren. 

Rev.   John  Gass Little  Rock. 

Rev.  R.  S.  James,  D.  D Eureka  Springs. 

Rev.  J.  W.  Keeble Batesville. 

Rev.  C.  H.  Lockwood Helena. 

Rev.  W.  J.  Miller Hot  Springs. 

Rev.   A.   W.   Pierce    Hope. 

Rev.  D.  S.  C.  M.  Potter,  D.  D Morrilton. 

Rev.  D.  B.  Ramsay Camden. 

Rev.  D.  L.  Trimble Pine  Bluff. 

Rev.  J.  J.  Vaulx   Fayetteville. 

Rev.  E.  J.  Williams Forrest  City. 

Rev.  I.  P.  Daniels Little  Rock. 

This  had  been  edited  for  the  two  years  previous  by  Rev. 
John  Davis,  whose  resignation  as  Dean  of  Trinity  Cathedral 
took  effect  in  September,  1895,  and  who,  not  long  after,  went 
to  Tokio,  Japan,  to  take  a  professorship  in  the  Theological 
Seminary  there. 


A  powerful  factor  in  the  hands  of  the  Clergy  of  Christ 
Church  has  been  and  continues  to  be  the  Chapter  of  "The 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  369 

Daughters  of  the  King,"  an  order  which  originated  with  the 
Episcopal  Church.  The  Christ  Church  Chapter  is  here 
briefly  described  in  its  origin  and  progress  by  Miss  Emma 
Kramer,  one  of  the  members,  at  the  request  of  the  annalist: 

A.  D.  1894.  Kev.  Wallace  Oarnahan,  in  1894,  asked 
the  young  ladies  and  young  married  ladies  to  meet  and  form 
a  Chapter  of  the  Daughters  of  the  King.  At  the  first  meet- 
ing in  January  there  were  present  Carrie  and  Lina  Oarnahan, 
Nonnie  and  Queen  Lawson,  Misses  Georgie  Woodruff,  Mary 
Hennigan,  Zoe  Scull,  Susie  Martin  (Mrs.  Mayfield,  of  Ala- 
bama), Mrs.  Sample,  Mrs.  Pope,  Emma  Kramer. 

Mrs.  Pope  was  our  first  directress.  She  then  went  to 
Alabama,  after  serving  two  months,  and  Miss  Churchill  took 
her  place.  Misses  Maggie  Dennison,  May  Wright  (Mrs. 
French  Hoge,  of  Kentucky),  Carolyn  Peay,  Rosa  Vickers 
(Mrs.  John  McClintock,  of  Kentucky),  Hattie  Bell,  Leila 
Field,  Jennie  Clements,  Juliette  Churchill  (Mrs.  R.  L.  Good- 
rich), Annie  Belding  (the  only  member  we  have  lost  by 
death),  Mary  O'Connell,  Rosa  Miller.  We  were  on  proba- 
tion until  October,  when  Mr.  Gass  came  here.  We. then  were 
initiated  and  formed  the  Advent  Chapter.  Some  who  were 
at  the  first  few  meetings  withdrew.  Mrs.  Gass  was  elected 
directress  and  it  was  through  her  influence  the  girls  began 
taking  interest  in  the  work.  Mrs.  Goodrich,  Misses  Peay, 
Miller,  Bell,  Woodruff,  and  Kramer  are  the  only  original 
members  that  now  belong  to  the  order,  though  others  have 
joined,  and  we  have  forty  members  now  who  are  doing  good 
work.  The  work,  or  sewing  committee,  alone  made  seventy- 
four  (74)  dollars  during  Lent,  and  the  two  months  pre- 
ceding. 

A.  D.  1898.  At  a  meeting  of  the  Vestry  of  Christ 
Church  on  the  evening  of  June  7,  after  the  resignation  of  the 


370  THE    ANNALS    OP    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

Rev.  John  Gass  had  been  tendered  and  accepted  and  he  had 
departed  for  Atlanta,  Ga.,  it  was  decided  to  call  the  Rev.  Geo. 
Gordon  Smeade,  Rector  of  Trinity  Church,  Pine  Bluff,  Ark., 
to  fill  the  vacancy.  On  the  29th  of  June  following,  the  Rev. 
Mr.  Smeade  signified  his  acceptance  of  the  office  of  Rector  of 
Christ  Church,  to  assume  the  charge  on  1st  of  October. 

Professor  W.  W.  Lathurn,  of  ]STew  York  City,  had  been 
secured  several  weeks  previously  as  organist. 

On  September  29,  1898,  Rev.  Mr.  Smeade  arrived  in 
Little  Rock  and  became  the  spiritual  head  of  Christ  Church 
Parish. 

REV.  GEORGE  GORDON  SMEADE. 

A.  D.  1887-1899.  Rev.  George  Gordon  Smeade  gradu- 
ated with  degree  M.  A.  at  Roanoke  College,  Salem,  Va., 
entered  the  Theological  Seminary  of  Virginia,  completed 
the  three  years'  course,  was  ordained  to  the  Diaconate 
June  24,  1887,  by  Bishop  F.  M.  Whittle,  of  Virginia, 
and  to  the  Priesthood,  June  29,  1888,  by  Bishop  A.  M.  Ran- 
dolph, of  Southern  Virginia,  then  Assistant  Bishop  of  Vir- 
ginia. He  was  sent  to  Pulaski  City,  Va.,  as  a  Deacon,  and 
remained  there  until  he  accepted  a  call  to  Trinity  Church, 
Pine  Bluff,  Ark.,  having  declined  several  previous  calls.  He 
was  Rector  of  that  Church  nearly  two  years,  which  he  re- 
organized— it  having  long  been  dismembered  and  without  a 
Rector — repaired  and  beautified  the  Church  building,  and 
largely  increased  the  congregation,  which  reluctantly  resigned 
him  on  his  acceptance  of  the  call  to  Christ  Church,  Little 
Rock.  Mr.  Smeade  is  a  young  man  and  unmarried  and 
might  well  hesitate  to  assume  control  where  such  an  illustrious 
line  of  leaders  had  preceded  him,  but  he  was  well  equipped 
for  the  arena,  and,  resting  on  the  arm  of  the  Almighty  he 


REV.  GEORGE  GORDON  SMEADE. 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  371 

entered  upon  his  work  with  a  divine  courage,  which  found 
him  at  the  end  of  a  year,  victorious  and  undismayed.  Suc- 
ceeding to  a  well  organized  and  flourishing  parish,  with  one 
incumbrance  and  one  drawback,  he  set  himself  to  remove  that 
incumbrance — the  remainder  of  the  Church  debt — and  to 
restore  peace,  which  had  lately  been  disturbed  in  Episcopal 
waters.  By  way  of  numerical  proof,  showing  the  result  of 
his  labor  in  the  first  and  second  years  of  his  Rectorship,  the 
number  of  candidates  presented  by  him  to  Bishop  H.  1ST. 
Pierce  for  confirmation  on  Palm  Sunday,  1899,  was  nine, 
and  those  presented  on  the  First  Sunday  after  Easter  to 
Bishop  Wm.  Montgomery  Brown  numbered  forty-four — the 
largest  class  that  has  ever  been  presented  for  confirmation  in 
Christ  Church.  The  financial  ability  of  the  Rector  has  also 
been  fully  demonstrated  by  his  plan  of  canceling  the  Church 
debt.  The  Easter  collection  for  this  object  was  $2,529.70, 
of  which  the  Ladies'  Aid  Society  of  the  Church  contributed 
$743.58.  With  pledges  for  $700,  which  Mr.  Smeade  still 
holds,  augmented  by  $1,000  from  the  Ladies'  Aid  Society, 
which  will  fall  due  from  the  Building  and  Loan  Association 
next  Easter,  the  incumbrance  will  be  removed  and  the  Church 
be  consecrated.  The  Vestry  gave  a  vote  of  thanks  to  their 
indefatigable  Rector,  in  which  the  congregation  heartily  con- 
curred. As  a  preacher,  Mr.  Smeade  is  logical,  profound  and 
persuasive  and  holds  full  congregations.  His  sermons  have 
been  blessed  to  his  parishioners.  Socially  he  is  highly 
esteemed  for  his  modest  integrity. 

At  the  request  of  the  annalist,  Mr.  Smeade  procured  from 
a  cousin  the  appended  lineage,  which  is  reproduced  from  the 
letter  of  Captain  W.  Gordon  McCabe,  one  of  the  most  bril- 
liant and  accomplished  scholars  in  the  country,  and  is  now- 
principal  of  the  University  School,  Richmond,  Va. 


372  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHUxtCH    PARISH. 

LINEAGE. 

A.  D.  1 781 .  Rev.  George  Gordon  Smeade,  who  was  born 
at  Old  Point  Comfort,  Ya.,  ''is  the  son  of  Lieutenant  Abner 
Smeade,  United  States  Army,  who  resigned,  entered  the  Con- 
federate army  and  rose  to  be  colonel  and  inspector-general 
on  'Stonewall'  Jackson's  staff,  and  Amanda  Wentworth  Gor- 
don, his  wife.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Alexander  George 
Gordon,  Commodore,  United  States  Navy,  and  granddaughter 
of  George  Taylor,  who  was  one  of  the  Wardens  of  Christ 
Church,  Alexandria,  Va.,  during  George  Washington's  attend- 
ance at  that  Churchy  and  was  a  member  of  the  standing  com- 
mittee of  the  Episcopal  Church  of  Virginia.  Said  Alexan- 
der George  Gordon,  Commodore  United  States  Navy,  was  the 
son  of  George  Alexander  Gordon,  of  Alexandria,  Va.,  and 
Mary  Morris,  his  wife.  Mary  Morris,  born  in  Dutchess 
County,  New  York,  was  the  daughter  of  John  Morris,  brother 
of  Robert  Morris,  financier  of  the  American  Revolution. 
Said  George  Alexander  Gordon  was  the  son  of  Lewis  Gordon, 
of  Easton,  Penn.,  and  his  wife,  Mary  Jenkins,  of  Philadel- 
phia, brother  of  Elizabeth  Gordon,  who  married  James  Tay- 
lor, son  of  George  Taylor,  signer  of  the  Declaration  of  Inde- 
pendence. Lewis  Gordon,  your  (Rev.  G.  G.  Smeade's)  great 
great-grandfather,  was  a  most  accomplished  and  cultured 
man.  He  was  a  lawyer  of  eminence  in  Northampton 
County,  Penn.,  and  of  direct  descent  from  the  Gordons,  of 
Kenmuir,  Kirkcudbright,  Scotland — 

*"Kennmir's  up  and  awa'  Willie !" 


*  William  of  Gordon ,  Sixth  Viscount  of  Kenmnre,  is  the  hero  of  the  Jacobite 
song  referred  to.  In  a  letter  to  his  daughter  Sophia,  Mrs.  John  Gibson  Lockhart, 
dated  London,  April  3, 1820,  Walter  Scott  writes: 

"We  had  a  very  merry  day  yesterday  at  Lord  Melville's  where  we  found  Lord 
Huntley  (the  late  Duke  of  Gordon)  and  other  friends,  and  had  a  bumper  to  the  new 
Baronet  whose  name  was  gazetted  that  evening  (Sir  Walter  himself).  Ladv  Hunt- 
ley plays  Scotch  tunes  like  p  Highland  aneel.  She  ran  a  set  of  variations  on  'Ken- 
mure  Von  and  awa1 !'  which  I  told  her  were  enoush  to  raise  a  wbole  Country  side.  I 
never  in  mv  life  heard  such  fire  thrown  into  that  sort  of  music."  See  Lockhart's 
Life  of  Sir  Walter  Scott,  Bart,  Vol.  VI,  page  20. 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  373 

"Your  Taylor  relatives  were  people  of  character  and  high 
position.  Through,  them  you  are  closely  related  to  Mrs. 
General  Fitzkugh  Lee  and  Governor  Holiday,  of  Virginia ; 
you  are  the  great  nephew  of  Rear  Admiral  Taylor ;  also  great 
nephew  of  Colonel  Frank  Taylor,  United  States  army,  of 
Mexican  War  fame,  who  married  the  daughter  of  Chief  Jus- 
tice Taney;  and  you  are  connected  with  the  Daingerfield's, 
Fowle's,  and  other  distinguished  folk." 

On  his  father's  side  Mr.  Smeade  is  related  to  Justice 
Lamar  and  the  famous  Madame  Octavia  Walton  Le  Vert. 


The  choir  of  Easter,  1899,  with  Professor  Lanthurn, 
organist,  was  composed  of  the  following  members : 

Boys — Oscar  Schadd,  Clem  Schaer,  Jack  Mitchell, 
Frank  Mitchell,  Sam  Cochran,  Hal  Cochran,  John  Foulkes, 
Percy  Skirving,  Melchoir  Eberts,  Robt.  Bogardt,  Willie 
Feeders,  Gordon  Blackwood. 

Sopranos — Miss  Heath,  Mrs.  Benj.  Harnwell,  Miss 
Edna  Bragg,  Miss  Ernest  Field,  Miss  Hudspeth,  Mrs.  McGee, 
Miss  Fannie  Bell,  Miss  Hattie  Bell,  Miss  Bonnie  Lawson, 
Miss  Rena  Smith. 

Altos — Miss  Nannie  Field,  Miss  Imogene  Brack,  Miss 
De  Neler. 

Tenors— Mr.  Tate  Robertson,  Mr.  Chas.  P.  Harnwell. 

Bassos— Mr.  Talbot  Field,  Mr..  Jesse  Dill,  Mr.  Terry 
Field,  Mr.  Chas.  A.  Magee,  Mr.  Geo.  Lescher,  Mr.  Ch;is. 
Lawson. 

PAROCHIAL  REPORT  FOR  THE  CONCILIAR  YEAR 
1899-1900,  TWENTY-EIGHTH  ANNUAL 
COUNCIL. 

CHRIST   CHURCH,   LITTLE   ROCK,   PULASKI   COUXTY. 

The  Rev.  G.  Gordon  Smeade,  M.  A.,  Rector;  residence, 

509   Scott  street ;  the  Rev.   James  Dickinson  Simmons.  As- 


374  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

sistant;  Major  Parhain,  Lay  Header;  Dr.  Win.  A.  Cantrell 
and  J  ohn  W .  Goodwin,  Wardens ;  Prank  M.  Jefferson,  Clerk ; 
Gordon  N.  Peay,  Treasurer. 

dumber  of  registered  Parishioners,  1,000.  Number  of 
families,  350.  Baptisms,  infants,  20;  adults,  11;  total  31. 
Confirmations,  44.  Marriages,  14.  Burials,  18.  dumber  of 
confirmed  persons,  650.  Communicants — Admitted,  44; 
received,  10  ;  died,  3  ;  removed,  2  ;  jnesent  number,  538.  Sun- 
day School — Teachers  and  officers,  46;  pupils,  318;  total, 
364.  Public  Services — On  Sunday,  100;  on  other  days,  100; 
Holy  Communions,  50.  Sittings  in  Church,  free  and  rented, 
650. 

Services  are  supported  by  pew  rents,  by  weekly  envelope 
system  and  by  voluntary  contributions. 

Offerings.  Parochial — Communion  alms,  $238.47  ; 
current  expenses,  $4,825.25;  payment  of  debts,  $3,200; 
Ladies'  Aid  Society,  $968.68;  Daughters  of  the  King, 
$497.84;  St.  Cecilia's  Guild,  $323;  Chancel  Guild,  $255; 
Christ  Church  Sunday  School,  $260.96;  St.  Paul's  Chapel 
Sunday  School,  $378.60  ;  total,  $10,947.70.  Diocesan — Dio- 
cesan assessment,  $115  ;  Diocesan  Missions,  $210.25  ;  Bishop's 
salary,  $113  ;  total,  $11,385.95.  Missions— General,  $82.67  ; 
Foreign,  $25;  Domestic,  $25;  University  of  the  South, 
$30.11 ;  total,  $162.78.     Total  for  all  objects,  $11,548.73. 

Value  of  all  Parish  land  (exclusive  of  buildings),  $14,- 
500;  value  of  Church  building,  $51,500;  value  of  Rectory, 
$6,000;  other  Parish  property,  $1,000;  total  value  of  all 
Parish  property,  $73,000.  Total  indebtedness  of  the  Parish, 
$1,200. 

This  has  been  the  most  successful  year  in  the  history  of 
Christ  Church.  Every  department  of  the  Church  is  alive 
with  activity. 

The  Assistant  Rector  (Rev.  Mr.  Simmons)  will  enter 
upon  his  duties  this  week. 

The  Easter  offering  amounted  to  $2,554.70.  After 
the  pledges  are  collected,  including  $1,000  in  the  Building 
and  Loan  Association,  the  indebtedness  on  the  Church  will 
onlv  be  $200. 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  375 

I  cannot  close  this  report  without  speaking  of  the  won- 
derful work  being  done  by  Mr.  Fay  Hempstead  at  St.  Paul's 
Chapel,  a  Mission  of  this  Church.  In  a  very  short  while  I 
believe  the  work  will  be  self -supporting. 

EEPOKT    OF    THE    COMMITTEE    ON    STATE    OF 
THE  CHURCH. 

The  Committee  on  State  of  the  Church  beg  leave  to  re- 
port, and  they  are  highly  gratified  and  greatly  encouraged 
by  the  improved  condition  in  which  they  find  the  Church  in 
Arkansas,  and  the  signal  progress  made  by  the  Diocese  within 
the  brief  period  of  a  few  short  months;  that  they  have  to 
record  the  grandest  year  in  the  history  of  the  Church  in  this 
State.  It  is  truly  remarkable.  The  labors  of  the  Bishop 
in  the  field,  and  outside  of  it,  for  its  advantage,  have  both 
been  untiring  and  eminently  fruitful.  The  remarkable  fund 
thus  accumulated  in  aid  of  missionary  work  in  the  Diocese  is 
far  beyond  all  precedent.  The  Church  in  Arkansas  has  been 
placed  in  full  touch  with  the  American  Church,  thus  auguring 
the  brightest  prospects  for  future  years  of  co-operation  and 
advancement. 

It  may  well  be  believed  that  this  beginning,  stimulating 
as  it  is,  is  but  the  herald  of  a  still  more  glorious  day.  That 
so  much  should  be  accomplished  within  so  short  a  period  by 
our  new  Bishop  should  fill  our  hearts  with  thanksgiving  and 
gratitude  to  the  bountiful  Giver  of  all  good.  The  blessed 
consequences  are  plainly  visible  in  every  quarter  of  the 
Diocese.  The  force  of  working  clergy  has  increased  within 
less  than  one  year  almost  one  hundred  per  cent,  a  marvelous 
augmentation  of  power  for  future  good.  Xew  rectories,  new 
chapels  and  Churches  seem  to  be  the  order  of  the  day.  On 
every  side  there  is  life,  energy  and  rapid  development. 
Parishes  for  long  years  stagnant  have  experienced  a  happy 
awakening.  Where  before  there  was  division  and  weakness, 
in  some  instances  to  the  point  of  paralysis,  now  there  is  har- 
mony and  strength.  Funds  are  freely  contributed  even  by 
isolated  Churchmen  and  Churchwomen  lona;  denied  the  dear 


376  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

privilege  of  the  services  of  the  Church.  The  Church  is  being 
planted  in  new  places.  •  Large  confirmation  classes  are  pre- 
sented to  the  Bishop. 

All  this,  under  God,  is  mainly  the  result  of  the  diligent 
and  tireless  labors  of  the  Bishop,  and  of  the  Archdeacons  pro- 
vided, appointed  and  inspired  by  him.  He  and  they  have 
been  unremitting  in  their  journeyings  to  and  fro  into  every 
corner  of  the  Diocese,  visiting  and  preaching  and  laboring, 
and  especially  appealing  for  assistance  to  help  on  the  Holy 
Cause  of  Christ  and  the  Church. 

Truly,  this  is  a  wonderful  record.  Heartily  may  we 
exclaim,  What  has  God  wrought  ?  Hopefully  now  may  we 
move  on  in  the  good  work,  putting  behind  us  the  dead  past 
and  gazing  steadfastly  into  the  brightness  of  the  coming  years, 
wherein,  with  the  steady  and  faithful  exertion  of  the  same 
forces  and  influences,  we  may  reasonably  hope,  with  the  bene- 
diction of  the  Father,  to  enjoy  a  constantly  increasing  growth 
and  expansion,  until  within  a  very  few  years,  the  Church  in 
America  will  have  cause  to  point  with  pride  to  the  great  work 
done  in  Arkansas. 

G.  GORDON  SMEADE, 

For  the  Committee. 

THE  WARDENS  AND  VESTRYMEN  OF  CHRIST 

CHURCH. 

A.  D.  1 839.  John  H.  Crease,  Senior  Warden ;  Luke  E. 
Barber,  Junior  Warden ;  Lambert  Reardon,  Charles  Rapley, 
John  Hutt,  J.  P.  Norman,  John  Adamson,  L.  J.  Reardon, 
F.  W.  Trapnall,  D.  Butler,  John  Wassell,  and  William 
Prather. 

A.  D.  1 841 .  John  Wassell,  Senior  Warden  ;  Abner  S. 
Washburn,  Junior  Warden.  No  record  of  the  Vestrymen 
has  been  obtained. 

A.  D.  1849.  Daniel  Ringo,  Senior  Warden;  John 
Wassell,  Junior  Warden;  William  B.  Wait,  Treasurer.  No 
further  record  of  Vestrvmen  obtained. 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  377 

A.  D.  1 858.  Luke  E.  Barber,  Senior  Warden ;  John  H. 
Crease,  Junior  Warden ;  Daniel  Kingo,  Win.  B.  Wait,  Thos. 
Churchill,  S.  H.  Hempstead,  John  Wassell,  C.  F.  M.  Xoland, 
Wm.  A.  Cantrell,  H.  N.  Case,  Kobert  Clements. 

A.  D.  1867.  Luke  E.  Barber,  Senior  WTarden;  John 
Wassell,  Junior  Warden ;  Wm.  B.  Wait,  S.  L.  Griffith,  Wm. 

A.  Cantrell,   IT.    M.    Rose,   Ben   C.    Trapnall,  Gwynne  Bar- 
ber, Daniel  Ringo,  T.  J.  Churchill,  and  Gordon  N".  Peay,  Sr. 

A.  D.  1885.  Luke  E.  Barber,  Senior  Warden;  R.  H. 
Parham,  Junior  Warden ;  Wm.  B.  Wait,  W.  W.  Smith,  J.  H. 
Haney,  Robert  J.  Matthews,  William  G.  Whipple,  Logan  H. 
Roots,  Geo.  H.  Van  Etten,  Samuel  L.  Griffith,  P.  K.  Roots. 

A.  D.  1886.  R.  H.  Parham,  Senior  Warden;  S.  L. 
Griffith,  Junior  Warden ;  W.  B.  Wait,  J.  H.  Haney,  Robert  J. 
Matthews,  William  G.  Whipple,  Los;an  H.  Roots,  Geo.  H. 
Van  Etten,  P.  K.  Roots,  C.  H  Dolbeer,  F.  D.  Clark. 

A.  D.  1887.  R.  H.  Parham,  Senior  Warden;  W.  W. 
Smith,  Junior  Warden ;  John  D.  Adams,  Dr.  W.  A.  Cantrell, 
R.  L.  Goodrich,  Dr.  L.  R.  Stark,  Rufus  J.  Polk,  G.  S.  Brack, 
J.  H.  Haney,  C.  H.  Dolbeer,  F.  D.  Clark. 

L  D.  1888.  R.  H.  Parham,  Senior  WTarden;  W.  W, 
Smith,  Junior  Warden ;  John  D.  Adams,  Dr.  W.  A.  Cantrell, 
R.  L.  Goodrich,  Dr.  L.  R.  Stark,  R.  J.  Polk,  G.  S.  Brack,  J. 
H.  Haney,  John  W.  Goodwin,  F.  D.  Clark. 

A.  D.  1 889.  R.  H.  Parham,  Senior  Warden  ;  Dr.  W.  A. 
Cantrell,  Junior  Warden  ;  John  D.  Adams,  John  W.  Goodwin, 
R.  L.  Goodrich,  L.  R.  Stark,  R.  J.  Polk,  J.  H.  Haney,  G.  S. 
Brack,  F.  D.  Clark,  S.  B.  Adams. 

A.  D.  1890.  John  D.  Adams,  Senior  Warden;  Wm.  A. 
Cantrell,  Junior  Warden ;  R.  H.  Parham,  G.  S.  Brack,  L.  R. 
Stark,  Ralph  L.  Goodrich,  J.  H.  Hanev,  Rufus  J.  Polk,  Sam 

B.  Adams,  John  W.  Goodwin,  T.  C.  Powell. 

A.  D.  1891.     Same  Vestry  re-elected. 


378  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

A.  D.  1892.  John  D.  Adams,  Senior  Warden;  W.  A. 
Cantrell,  Junior  Warden ;  R.  H.  Parham,  J.  H.  Haney,  G.  S. 
Brack,  R.  L.  Goodrich,  L.  E.  Stark,  J.  W.  Goodwin,  S.  B. 
Adams,  T.  C.  Powell,  W.  F.  Wright. 

A.  D.  1893.  W.  A.  Cantrell,  Senior  Warden;  John  W. 
Goodwin,  Junior  Warden ;  S.  B.  Adams,  W.  F.  Wright,  T.  C. 
Powell,  W.  H.  Ragland,  H.  K.  Cochran,  J.  M.  Bracey,  G.  K 
Peay,  J.  A.  Van  Etten,  H.  F.  H.  Eberts. 

A.  D.  1894.  W.  A.  Cantrell,  Senior  Warden;  John  W. 
Goodwin,  Junior  Warden ;  G.  S.  Brack,  S.  B.  Adams,  J.  M. 
Bracey,  H.  K.  Cochran,  W.  H.  Ragland,  W.  F.  Wright,  A.  A. 
Rutland,  G.  N".  Peay,  J.  A.  Van  Etten. 

A.  D.  1  895.      Same  Vestry  re-elected. 

A.  D.  1896.  W.  A.  Cantrell,  Senior  Warden;  John  W. 
Goodwin,  Junior  Warden ;  H.  K.  Cochran,  Sam  B.  Adams, 
W.  F.  Wright,  A.  A.  Rutland,  W.  H.  Ragland,  J.  H.  Haney, 
J.  M.  Bracey,  Gordon  1ST.  Peay,  J.  A.  Van  Etten. 

A.  D.  1897.  W.  A.  Cantrell,  Senior  Warden;  John  W. 
Goodwin,  Junior  Warden ;  II.  K.  Cochran,  S.  B.  Adams, 
J.  M.  Bracey,  G.  S.  Brack,  A.  A.  Rutland,  Gordon  K  Peav, 
J.  A.  Van  Etten,  C.  T.  Coffman,  F.  M.  Jefferson. 

A.  D.  1 898.     Same  Vestry  re-elected. 

A.  D.  1 899.  W.  A.  Cantrell,  Senior  Warden ;  John  W. 
Goodwin,  Junior  Warden ;  G.  S.  Brack,  H.  K.  Cochran,  J.  M. 
Bracey,  A.  A.  Rutland,  G.  K  Peay,  C.  T.  Coffman,  J.  A. 
Van  Etten,  F.  M.  Jefferson,  Robert  E.  Wait. 

A.  D.  1900.  W.  A.  Cantrell,  Senior  Warden;  John  W. 
Goodwin,  Junior  Warden ;  G.  S.  Brack,  H.  K.  Cochran,  F.  M. 
Jefferson,  G.  K  Peav,  S.  R.  Cockrill,  T.  H.  Bunch,  G.  H. 
Lee,  R.  W.  Polk,  H.  C.  Rather. 


THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH.  379 

TREASURERS  OF  CHRIST  CHURCH. 

John  H.  Crease,  Lambert  Reardon,  William  B.  Wait, 
Ambrose  H.  Sevier,  J.  T.  Trezevant,  A.  J.  Slaughter,  W.  B. 
Cotton,  R.  II.  Parham,  John  H.  Haney,  Albert  O'Xeal, 
Albert  WTassell,  John  D.  Adams,  Samuel  B.  Adams,  John  W. 
Goodwin,  W.  F.  Wright,  II.  K.  Cochran,  Francis  M.  Jeffer- 
son, Gordon  N.  Peay. 

PRESIDEXTS  OF  THE  LADIES'  AID  SOCIETY. 

(1)  Mrs.  Jane  Newton  Crease,  (2)  Mrs.  Sim  Bostick, 
(3)  Mrs.  Sue  Crease  Peay,  (-1)  Mrs.  Charles  Scott,  (5)  Mrs. 
LL  X.  Pierce,  (6)  Mrs.  Logan  H.  Roots,  (7)  Mrs.  Catherine 
B.  Skipwith,  (8)  Mrs.  James  Lawson,  (9)  Mrs.  George  W. 
Denison,  (10)  Mrs.  George  Sappington,  (11)  Mrs.  Sue 
Crease  Peay  (second  term),  (12)  Mrs.  Rachel  Carroll,  (13) 
Mrs.  T.  J.  Darragh,  (14)  Mrs.  James  Lawson,  from  1896  to 
1900,  continuously. 

VICE  PRESIDEXTS. 

Mrs.  A.  L.  Breysacher,  Mrs.  Frances  Johnson,  Mrs. 
Julia  B.  Bond,  Mrs.  Sue  Crease  Peay. 

TREASURERS. 

Miss  Ada  Beall  Cochrane  (Mrs.  T.  B.  Lee),  Mrs.  J.  H. 
Haney,  Mrs.  G.  S.  Brack,  Mrs.  M.  S.  Horrocks. 

SECRETARIES  OF    THE    LADIES'    AID    SOCIETY. 

Miss  A.  S.  Crease,  Miss  Georgie  Wroodruff,  Mrs.  A.  L. 
Breysacher,  Mrs.  H.  G.  Hollenberg,  Mrs.  Bessie  Peay  Bohlin- 
ger,  Mrs.  W.  A.  Cantrell,  Mrs.  George  Denison,  Mrs.  J.  M. 
Dill,  Mrs.  R.  B.  Gross,  Mrs.  A.  A.  Rutland. 


380  THE    ANNALS    OF    CHRIST    CHURCH    PARISH. 

THE  MISSIONARY  SOCIETY. 

This  society,  being  understood  to  embrace  all  baptized 
members  of  the  congregation,  has  no  recognized  head,  except 
the  Kector.  The  "Ladies'  Aid  Society"'  usually  supplied  the 
committees  to  work  under  Rev.  Wallace  Carnahan's  direction. 
Some  noble  work  was  done  in  sending  missionary  boxes  to 
clergymen  in  remote  districts  and  donations  in  currency  to 
feeble  parishes  within  the  Diocese. 

Later  this  association,  under  the  Rev.  John  Gass,  took 
the  title  of  "The  Christ  Church  Branch  of  the  Woman's 
Auxiliary  to  the  Board  of  Missions  in  the  Diocese  of  Arkan- 
sas." The  "Woman's  Auxiliary"  was  organized  by  Mrs. 
Twing,  honorary  secretary,  at  the  instance  of  the  general  sec- 
retaries of  the  board,  the  Bishops  of  the  Church,  and  its  own 
general  secretaries  of  the  board's  appointment,  in  'New  York, 
January,  1872.  The  present  secretary,  Miss  Julia  C. 
Emery,  entered  upon  her  duties  October  1,  1876,  and  has 
carried  the  work  steadily  on  since  that  time,  assisted  by  her 
sister,  Miss  M.  T.  Emery. 

A.  D.  1 886.  The  Christ  Church  Branch  of  the  Woman's 
Auxiliary  in  the  Diocese  of  Arkansas  was  organized  May  17, 
1886,  with  the  following  officers.  Rev.  John  Gass,  President ; 
Mrs.  Catherine  B.  Skipwith,  Vice  President;  Mrs.  G.  H. 
Van  Etten,  Second  Vice  President ;  Mrs.  C.  S.  Cohen,  Third 
Vice  President ;  Mrs.  Rufus  J.  Polk,  Fourth  Vice  President ; 
Mrs.  W.  H.  Ragland,  Treasurer ;  Mrs.  John  Gass,  Record- 
ing Secretary;  Miss  Matilda  Jordan,  Corresponding 
Secretary. 

In  1898-99  the  officers  were  Mrs.  0.  S.  Cohen,  Vice 
President ;  Mrs.  Sue  Crease  Peay,  Second  Vice  President ; 
Mrs.  Wm.  A.  Cantrell,  Recording  Secretary;  Miss  Matilda 
Jordan,  Corresponding  Secretary ;  Mrs.  Edgar  Holman, 
Treasurer. 

In  1899-1900  the  officers  were  Rev.  Geo.  Gordon 
Smeade,  President ;  Mrs.  G.  H.  Van  Etten,  Vice  President ; 


THE   ANNALS   OF   CHRIST   CHURCH   PARISH.  381 

Airs.  G.  W.  Sappington,  Second  Vice  President;  Mrs.  Gray 
Carroll,  Secretary :  Miss  Matilda  Jordan,  Corresponding  Sec- 
retary and  Treasurer. 

OFFICERS  OF  DAUGHTERS  OF  THE  KING. 

First  Directress,  Mrs.  Pope ;  Second  Directress, 

Mrs.  John  Gass ;  Third  Directress,  Mrs.  N.  Y.  Bailey ;  Fourth 
Directress,  Mrs.  Andrew  Hunter ;  Fifth  Directress,  Miss 
Emma  Kramer. 

OFFICERS  OF  ST.  CECILIA'S  GUILD. 

FORMED  IX   1897 REV.   JOHN  GASS,  RECTOR. 

A.  D.  1897.  President,  Mrs.  Charles  Martin  (organ- 
izer) :  Vice  President,  Mrs.  Edwin  Bentley ;  Secretary,  Miss 
Minnie  Oowpland  ;  Treasurer,  Mrs.  H.  K.  Cochran;  Corre- 
sponding Secretary,  Mrs.  Frederick  Martin. 

A.  D.  1898.     President,  Mrs.    Charles  Martin;    Vice 

President,  Airs.   Edwin   Bentley;     Secretary,  Miss    Minnie 

Cowpland ;  Corresponding  Secretary,  Miss  Nell  Dooley ; 
Treasurer,  Miss  Imogene  Brack. 

A.  D.  1899.  President,  Mrs.  Edwin  Bentley;  Vice 
President,  Mrs.  Frederick  Martin ;  Secretary,  Miss  Nell 
Dooley ;  Corresponding  Secretary,  Miss  Bertie  Hudspeth ; 
Treasurer,  Miss  Bobbie  Jones. 

Advisory  Board — Mrs.  Gass,  Mrs.  Compton,  Mrs. 
Sybert,  Mrs.  Miller,  Mrs.  Bragg,  Mrs.  Retan. 

ORGANISTS  OF  CHRIST  CHURCH. 

Mrs.  Wm.  H.  C.  Yeager,  Dr.  Ben  Scull,  Mr.  Leonidas 
P.  Wheat,  Mr.  —  -  Ives,  Dr.  J.  M.  Beidelman,  Mrs.  Mar- 
garet Kerr,  Miss  Mary  E.  Harrell,  Professor  Levy,  Professor 
Ellinger,  Miss  Laura  Wiederman,  Professor  August  Hoffman, 
Miss  Mary  Smith  (Mrs.  Dewey),  Miss  Lily  Wright  (Mrs. 
Putnam   Dickinson),   Miss   Ludovica   Krause,    Mr.    Edward 


382  THE   ANNALS   OF   CHRIST   CHURCH   PARISH. 

Cutts  Gould,  Miss  Margaret  Woodruff,  Mr.  T.  C.  Deane,  Mrs. 
Madison,  Professor  Brebegh,  Mr.  Palm  Saxby,  Mrs.  P.  K. 
Hoots,  Mrs.  W.  C.  Denney,  Miss  Irene  Baird  (Mrs.  Murray), 
Professor  R.  Jefferson  Hall,  Professor  W.  W.  Lanthurn. 

SIXGERS. 

Mrs.  Helen  Scott,  Miss  Lizzie  Shall,  Miss  Frances  Cocke 
(Mrs.  Trapnall),  Miss  Mary  Crease  (Mrs.  Watkins),  Miss 
Lavinia  Reardon  (Mrs.  Wait),  Miss  Helen  Reardon  (Mrs. 
Scott),  Miss  Harriet  Grafton  (Mrs.  Fatherly),  Miss  Blanche 
Scott  (Mrs.  Sokolski),  Miss  Eliza  Tucker  (Mrs.  Beebe),  Miss 
Mary  Ellen  Tucker  (Mrs.  Ives-Strong),  Miss  Joanna  Krause 
(  Mrs.  Hotze),  Miss  Arbadoo  Gibson  (Mrs.  Farrelly),  Miss 
Maggie  Reyburn  (Mrs.  John  Peay),  Miss  Laura  Crease  (Mrs. 
Lewis),  Miss  Lollie  Tucker  (Mrs.  Hardy),  Miss  Annie  Rear- 
don (Mrs.  Raleigh),  Misses  Isadore  and  Lillian  Pike  (Mrs. 
Roome),  Miss  Jennie  Whipple,  Mrs.  Ames-Billings,  Mrs. 
Harris-Ryan,  Miss  Edwards,  Miss  Emma  Scott  (Mrs.  Law- 
son),  Miss  Johanna  Scott  (Mrs.  Robards),  Miss  Lily  Wright 
(Mrs.  Dickinson),  Miss  Imogene  Wright  (Mrs.  Sevier),  Miss 
Lillian  Cantrell  (Mrs.  Bay),  Miss  Bessie  Pierce  (Mrs. 
Lyman),  Miss  May  Cantrell  (Mrs.  Axtell),  Mrs.  Katzenstein, 
Mrs.  Hanford,  Miss  Alice  Compton  (Mrs.  Weaver),  Miss 
Williams-Harnwell,  Mrs.  Whipple,  Mrs.  Cavanaugh,  Miss 
Daisy  Cantrell  (Mrs.  Polk),  Miss  Nellie  Clarke  (Mrs. 
Ward),  Miss  Isadore  Cantrell  (Mrs.  Goodwyn),  Colonel  Wm. 
G.  Whipple,  Major  J.  W.  Smith,  Judge  W.  J.  Warwick,  Mr. 
Wm.  Hunter,  Mr.  Geo.  Gibbs,  Mr.  Victor  Newton  (in  the  old 
Church  and  Chapel),  Mr.  T.  W.  Bankes,  Lieutenant  Post, 
U.  S.  A. ;  Lieutenant  Gregory,  U.  S.  N". 


A.  D.  1 899.  Upon  the  demise  of  the  aged  Bishop  Henry 
Niles  Pierce,  on  September  5,  1899,  after  seventy-nine  years 
of  earthly  pilgrimage,  the  Rt.  Rev.  Dr.  Wm.  Montgomery 
Brown,  Bishop-Coadjutor  since  June  28,  1898,  became  Bishop 


THE   ANNALS  OF  CHRIST   CHURCH   PARISH.  383 

of  the  Diocese  of  Arkansas  without  further  ceremony.  He 
had  been  at  his  summer  home  at  Galion,  Ohio,  and  when 
notified  of  the  serious  illness  of  Bishop  Pierce  immediately 
set  out  for  Fayetteville,  Ark.,  to  attend  on  him.  When  there 
was  no  hope  of  recovery  and  the  end  was  at  hand  he  left  Fay- 
etteville  for  Little  Rock  and  was  ready  to  receive  the  funeral 
cortege  when  it  arrived  here  at  7  :50  p.  m.,  on  the  6th  of  Sep- 
tember, and  take  part  in  the  funeral  services  before  narrated. 
The  biography  of  the  latest  Bishop  will  close  the  series  given. 
It  will  naturally  be  shorter  than  those  of  his  predecessors,  as 
his  career  has  but  begun,  but  it  is  the  sincere  hope  of  the 
annalist  that  it  will  crown  all  that  have  gone  before  with  a 
blessed  fruition  of  their  joint  labors. 

The  following  summary  of  Bishop  Brown's  work  is 
quoted  from  the  Journal  of  the  Twenty-eighth  Annual  Council 
of  the  Diocese  of  Arkansas : 

SUMMARY  OF  MY   WORK  IX   ARKANSAS. 

Places  visited,  thirty-four;  number  of  visitations,  fifty- 
one  ;  sermons,  sixty-five ;  addresses,  seventy-five ;  lectures,  six- 
teen; baptisms,  ten;  confirmations,  108  ;  communions,  twenty- 
eight  ;  marriages,  one ;  letters  dimissory  received,  three. 

Of  the  108  confirmations  mentioned,  the  candidates  from 
Christ  Church  presented  by  Rev.  George  G.  Smeade  are : 

Little  Rock— Christ  Church,  April  22,  1900  :  Mr.  Verne 
Ricord  Stover,  Mr.  Rufus  E.  Brugman,  Mr.  J  no.  0.  Peay, 
Mr.  W.  A.  Pickering,  Mr.  Reyburn  R.  Peay,  Mr.  Oscar  Addi- 
son Schaad,  Mr.  James  David  Crockett,  Mr.  Ashley  Cockrill, 
Mr.  Shelby  Tuppes  Jabine,  Mr.  F.  D.  Learning,  Mr.  E.  H. 
Learning,  Mr.  Clarence  Shell  Gordon,  Mr.  Robert  Whitfield 
Newell,  Mr.  Robert  Dorsey  Wooldridge,  Mr.  Albert  Retail, 
Major  Claude  H.  Sayle,  Mrs.  Grace  Anna  Dean,  Miss  Winnie 
Grace  Dean,  Mrs.  Lida  Leopard,  Mrs.  Nettie  Williams,  Airs. 
Clara  Whavne,  Miss  Prewitt,  Miss  Irene  Elizabeth 


384  THE   ANNALS  OF  CHRIST   CHURCH  PARISH. 

Hamilton,  Miss  Ethel  Marigold  Smith,  Miss  Bettie  G.  Ward, 
Miss  Gertrude  Berbig,  Mrs.  F.  D.  Learning,  Mrs.  E.  H.  Learn- 
ing, Mrs.  Jno.  W.  Mast,  Jr.,  Miss  Serena  L.  Abbott,  Miss 
Abbigale  Belle  Becker,  Mrs.  Jennie  Mitchell  Cockrill,  Miss 
Jessie  Eliza  Scott,  Mrs.  Robert  E.  Wait,  Mrs.  Reyburn  R. 
Peay,  Mrs.  Matilda  Merriman,  Mrs.  Melissa  Retail,  Miss  Zilla 
E.  Retan,  Miss  Carrie  May  Retail,  Miss  June  Sibeck,  Mrs. 
Lucile  Hillis  Hooper,  Miss  Maggie  Richard  Henwood,  Miss 
Martha  Dickinson  Brumnan. 


THE  RT.  REV.  WM.  MONTGOMERY  BROWN,  D.  D. 

A.  D.  1855-1898.  The  lit.  Rev.  TF»i.  Montgomery 
Brown,  D.  D.,  second  Bishop  of  the  Diocese  of  Arkansas,  was 
born  in  Wayne  County,  Ohio,  near  Orrville,  November  6, 
1855.  His  academic  studies  were  pursued  in  the  High  School 
of  Cleveland,  Ohio,  at  Seabury  Hall,  Faribault,  Minn.,  and 
under  private  tutors.  He  studied  theology  at  Bexley  Hall, 
the  Theological  Seminary  of  Kenyon  College.  Was  ordered 
Deacon  by  Bishop  Bedell,  June  17,  1883,  in  Trinity  Church, 
Cleveland,  and  was  placed  in  charge  of  Grace  Mission,  Galion, 
Ohio.  Was  advanced  to  the  Priesthood  by  the  same  Bishop 
on  May  22,  1884,  in  Trinity  Church,  Toledo,  Ohio.  He  re- 
mained at  Galion,  building  up  that  mission,  and  establishing 
missions  in  adjacent  places  to  the  number  of  seven,  until  1891, 
when  he  became  the  General  Missionary  of  the  Diocese  of 
Ohio,  with  the  title  of  Archdeacon.  In  the  latter  capacity  he 
had,  under  the  Bishop,  oversight  of  all  the  missionary  work 
in  the  Diocese,  and  was  largely  instrumental  in  establishing 
the  Church  in  a  great  many  places  and  of  building  twenty-one 
mission  chapels.  At  the  time  of  his  election  to  the  Episco- 
pate he  was  also  secretary  of  the  Diocesan  Missionary  Com- 
mittee and  of  the  Diocesan  Board  of  Trustees,  and  he  was  one 


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THE   ANNALS   OF   CHRIST   CHURCH   PARISH.  385 

of  the  special  lecturers  at  the  Kenyon  College  Theological 
Seminary,  Bexley  Hall.  He  was  elected  Bishop-Coadjutor 
of  Arkansas  on  December  1,  1897,  and  was  consecrated  in 
Trinity  Cathedral,  Cleveland,  June  24,  189S,  by  Bishops 
McLaren  (Chicago),  Seymour  (Springfield),  Whitehead 
(Pittsburg),  Vincent  (Bishop-Coadjutor  of  Southern  Ohio), 
Leonard  (Ohio),  Atwill  (West  Missouri),  Hale  (Bishop  Co- 
Adjutor  of  Springfield),  and  White  (Indiana).  The 
appointed  consecrators  were  the  Bishops  of  Chicago,  Pitts- 
burg, and  Coadjutor  of  Southern  Ohio.  The  presenters 
were  the  Bishops  of  Springfield  and  Ohio,  and  the  preacher 
the  Bishop  of  West  Missouri.  The  attending  Presbyters 
were  the  Very  Rev.  D.  I.  Hobbs,  of  Little  Rock,  and  the 
Rev.  Professor  Davies,  of  Gambier.  Archdeacon  Taylor,  of 
Springfield,  111.,  acted  as  deputy  registrar.  Bishop  Brown 
received  the  degree  of  D.  D.  from  Kenyon  College  and  from 
the  University  of  the  South,  1898.  He  is  the  author  of  "The 
Church  for  Americans,'''  first  published  in  1896,  and  now  in 
its  tenth  edition. 

On  April  9,  1885,  Rev.  Wm.  Montgomery  Brown  mar- 
ried Miss  Ella  Bradford,  the  adopted  daughter  of  Mrs.  Mary 
Scranton  Bradford,  of  Cleveland,  Ohio.  His  first  charge 
was  in  Galion,  Ohio,  where  he  still  retains  his  summer  home. 
He  moved  to  Little  Rock  with  his  family  in  November,  1898, 
where  he  has  since  resided. 

The  Right  Rev.  Wm.  Montgomery  Brown,  D.  D.,  Bishop 
of  Arkansas,  has  just  issued  from  the  press  of  Thomas  Whit- 
taker,  New  York,  the  tenth  edition  of  his  remarkable  book, 
"The  Church  for  Americans."  Libertas,  writing  in  the 
Fort  Smith  Times,  says  that  it  is  remarkable  not  so  much  for 
its  great  popularity,  which  is  evidenced  by  the  number  of 
editions  through  which  it  has  run,  as  for  its  broad-minded 
spirit,  liberality  and  entire  freedom  from  invective,  ridicule 


386  THE  ANNALS   OF   CHRIST   CHURCH   PARISH. 

or  harsh  criticism  in  discussing  a  subject  which  ordinarily 
contains  more  latent  heat  than  any  other- — that  of  religion — 
wherein  too  often  our  advocates  of  a  peculiar  cult — ■ 

"Prove  their  doctrine  orthodox 
By  apostolic  blows  and  knocks." 

The  spirit  of  the  work  may  be  determined  from  the 
following  paragraphs  of  the  introduction : 

"It  was  impossible  to  cover  the  ground  marked  out  for 
this  book  without  instituting  comparisons  between  the  Episco- 
pal Church  and  other  bodies  of  Christians.  Where  we  are 
found  to  differ  radically  in  matters  of  doctrine  and  govern- 
ment an  uncompromising  effort  has  been  made  to  justify  our 
position.  But  the  uniform  endeavor  has  been  to  speak  the 
truth  as  Episcopalians  understand  it  in  a  spirit  of  love  and 
fairness,  and  it  is  hoped  that  we  have  nowhere  been  so  unfor- 
tunate in  our  expressions  as  to  wound  the  feelings  of  any  who 
differ  from  us  or  to  leave  the  impression  that  we  are  so  nar- 
row and  bigoted  as  not  to  perceive  that  the  various  denomina- 
tions of  Churches  have  done  and  are  doing  a  great  amount  of 
good.  We  believe  that  countless  millions  will  be  in  heaven 
who  followed  not  with  us. 

"But  though  we  are  aware  of  the  Christian  graces,  the 
good  Works,  and  the  bright  heavenly  prospects  of  tens  of  thous- 
ands of  the  representatives  of  the  Roman  Church  and  Dissent- 
ing Protestants,  yet  this  glad  conviction  does  not  justify  us 
in  forgetting  our  prolonged,  causeless,  hurtful  and  therefore 
sinful  divisions,  and  the  consequent  obligation  to  do  what  we 
can  to  restore  the  visible  organic  unity  of  the  primitive 
Church.  We  are  indeed  all  journeying  toward  the  Promised 
Land ;  but  how  much  better  it  would  be  for  us  and  for  the 
world  if  we  were  going  together  in  the  straight  and  narrow 
way  of  God's  appointment  I1' 

Bishop  Brown's  arguments  are  based  upon  the  following- 
broad  tenets : 


THE   ANNALS  OF   CHRIST   CHURCH   PARISH.  387 

"(1.)  Christ  founded  a  visible,  organized  Church,  and 
has  laid  upon  us  the  obligation  to  ally  ourselves  with  it.  {'2.) 
The  way  to  that  Church  is  not  through  the  gates  of  Home. 
(3.)  Nor  by  way  of  Methodism,  Presbyterianism,  etc.,  but 
(-1)  Through  the  Episcopal  Church.'' 

The  writer  follows  the  history  of  the  Church  in  detail 
from  the  time  it  was  planted  in  Britain  in  apostolic  times, 
probably  by  St.  Paul  himself,  through  all  its  struggles  with 
papacy,  and  gives  a  graphic  account  of  the  founding  of  the 
Church  in  America.  His  reviewer  closes  by  commending 
"Church  for  Americans"  to  every  fair  seeker  after  knowledge, 
as  one  of  the  cleverest,  wisest  and  most  logical  and  least  dog- 
matic presentations  of  Episcopal  doctrine  than  can  come  to 
his  hands.  It  will  eradicate  from  the  minds  of  many  of  us 
very  mistaken  impressions  and  fill  us  with  a  more  wholesome 
respect  for  tenets,  which  perhaps  we  did  not  before  under- 
stand. 


[Arkansas  Democrat,  April  19,  1900.] 
KEY.  BROWX  ACTED 

AS   A    SUBSTITUTE   AT   ST.    MATTHEW'S    CHURCH    IX    NEW    YORK. 

The  following  clipping  from  a  jSTew  York  paper  will 
interest  the  friends  of  the  Rev.  Wm.  M.  Brown  in  Tittle 
Rock : 

"An  unusual  incident  occurred  at  St.  Matthew's  Church 
upon  the  occasion  of  the  recent  visit  of  the  Bishop  of  the 
Diocese.  Dr.  Pvrans  was  so  ill  that  he  could  not  take  part 
and  present  the  class.  Bishop  Brown,  of  Arkansas,  who  hap- 
pened to  know  of  Dr.  Krans's  condition,  because  he  made  one 
of  the  Lenten  week  day  addresses,  volunteered  to  take  his  place 
as  parish  Priest,  and  did  so,  reading  the  lesson  and  presenting 
the  class,  Dr.  Gallaudet  reading  the    Collects    and    Psalter. 


388  THE   ANNALS   OF   CHRIST   CHURCH    PARISH. 

Bishop  Potter,  as  could  be  seen,  tried  to  treat  Bishop  Brown 
as  another  Bishop,  offered  him  the  chair,  etc.  But  Bishop 
Brown  refused.  He  was  there  to  be  the  Parish  Priest,  and 
he  refused  to  be  anything  else.  Bishop  Potter  referred  to 
the  incident  eloquently  and  touchingly,  saying  that  while  he 
had  confirmed  nearly  one  hundred  thousand  persons  in  this 
Diocese,  this  was  the  first  instance  he  had  known  where  the 
class  had  been  presented  by  one  Bishop  to  be  confirmed  by 
another.  He  recalled  the  story  of  St.  Peter  and  St.  John 
going  to  Samaria  to  confirm  those  converted  under  the  preach- 
ing of  St.  Philip,  the  Deacon." 


LIST    OF    SUBSCRIBERS    TO    THE    AXXALS    OF 

CHRIST  CHURCH  PARISH,  LITTLE 

ROCK,    ARK. 

Bishop  Wm.  Montgomery  Brown 5   Copies. 

Dr.  Wm.  A.  Cantrell  . 5 

Dr.  James  A.  Dibrell 2 

Mr.  J.  H.  Hanev 1 

Mr.  G.  S.  Brack' 1 

Rev.  P.  G.  Robert,  St.  Louis,  Mo 1 

Mrs.  Sterling  R.  Cockrill,  Little  Rock 1 

Mrs.  John  IsT.  Jabine 1 

Miss  Mary  E.  Harrell,  Hot  Springs 1 

Rev.  Wallace  Carnahan,  San  Antonio,  Texas.  ...  2 

Rev.  Geo.  Gordon  Smeade,  Little  Rock 2 

Mr.  Robert  E.  Wait    1 

Mr.  John  S.  Adamson 1 

Mrs.  Lillian  Cantrell  Bay,  St.  Louis,  Mo 1 

Mrs.  Cara  Crease  Peyton,  Little  Rock 1 

Mrs.  Sue  Crease  Peay,  Little  Rock 1 

Miss  A.  S.  Crease,  Little  Rock 1 

Mr.  J.  Huntley,  Little  Rock 1 

Mr.  C.  T.  Coffmam  Little  Rock 1 

Dr.  B.  B.  Minor,  Richmond,  Va 1 


THE   ANNALS  OF   CHRIST   CHURCH   PARISH.  389 

Kev.  T.  C.  Tupper,  Savannah,  Ga 1  Copies. 

Colonel  Wm.  G.  Whipple,  Little  Kock 1 

Mrs.  C.  M.  Butler,  Little  Rock 1 

Mr.  Norman  B.  Morrell,  Knoxville,  Tenn 2 

Mrs.  Gilbert  Knapp,  Toltec,  Ark 2 

Mrs.  Daisy  Cantrell  Polk,  Galveston,  Texas 2 

Mrs.  May  Cantrell  Axtell,  Richmond,  Va 10 

General  B.  W.  Green,  Little  Rock 1 

Miss  Hettie  Denison,  Little  Rock    1 

Mrs.  P.  K.  Roots,  Little  Rock 1 

Rev.  Willard  II.  Roots,  Chelan,  Wash 1 

Rev.  Geo.  F.  Degan,  Augusta,  Maine 1 

Mr.  Fay  Hempstead,  Little  Rock 1 

Mr?.  W.  A.  Compton,  Little  Rock 1 

Mr.  Wm.  A.  Cantrell,  Jr.,  Fort  Worth,  Texas .  .  2 

Mrs.  Augusta  Van  Etten 1 

Mrs.  John  C.  Peay 1 

Mrs.  E.  Upham  Reeve 1 

Judge  LT.  M.  Rose 1 

Miss  Julia  C.  Emery,  New  York 1 

Mrs.  Isadore  Cantrell  Goodwyn,  Galveston,  Texas  1 

Mrs.  John  Levering  Matthews,  Little  Rock 1 

Mvs.  Mary  F.  Zimmerman 1 

Mrs.  Susan  Cantrill  Christie,  Brooklyn,  X.  Y. .  .  1 

Miss  Louie  Cantrill  Christie,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. .  .  .  1 

Gazette  Publishing  Company 1 

Mr.  R.  O.  Paul,  Little  Rock 1 

Mrs.  Benj.  Harnwell,  Little  Rock 1 

Mr.  John  M.  Bracey,  Little  Rock 1 

Miss  Matilda  Jordan    1 

Captain  Sam  B.  Adams 1 

Rev.  C.  C.  Kramer,  New  Iberia,  La 1 

Mrs.  F.  Wolcott  Jackson,  Newark,  N.  J 1 

Mr.  A.  F.  Adams,  Dallas,  Texas 1 

Mrs.  A.  A.  Rutland,  Little  Rock 1 

Mr.  W.  W.  Lanthurn,  Little  Rock 1 

Mrs.  W.  W.  Smith,  Clarendon,  Ark 1 

Mrs.  G.  M.  D.  Cantrell,  Little  Rock 1 

Rev.  Arthur  Howard  Noll,  Somerville,  Tenn ....  1 


390  THE   ANNALS  OF   CHRIST   CHURCH   PARISH. 

Rev.  Geo.  W.  Lav,  Concord,  X.  H 1  Copies. 

Major  R.  H.  Parham,  Little  Rock 1         " 

Mrs.  John  Dudlev  Adams,  Little  Rock 1         " 

Mr.  S.  S.  Wassell 1 

Mrs.  Soplironia  Peav  Golder    1         " 

Mrs.   W.   Fulton  Wright    1         " 

Mrs.  Fannie  Kendricks 1  " 

Mrs.   Francissa  E.  Hutt    1  " 

Mrs.  Mary  Causine  Clements 1  " 

Mrs.  Eliza  Scott,  Scott's  Station   1  " 

Dr.  Claiborne  Watkins    1  " 

Mrs.  O.  P.  Robinson,  Ashvale,  Ark 1  " 

Mrs.   P.   Foulkes,   Little  Rock 1  " 

Mrs.  J.  B.  Pillow,  Helena,  Ark 1 

Mrs.  Ruf us  J.  Polk,  Little  Rock 1  " 

Mrs.  Laura  Lewis  Bunch,  Little  Rock 1  " 

Mrs,  A.  P.  Howell,  Little  Rock 1  " 

Mr.  Deaderick  H.  Cantrell,  Little  Rock 25  " 

Mrs.  Fanny  Ashley  Gray,  Little  Rock' 1  " 

Mrs.  J.  Cabell  Breckinridge 1  " 

Mrs.  L.  P.  Gibson 1  " 

Mrs.  A.  V.  Sappington 1  " 

Miss  Frances  M.  Scott 1  " 

Mr.  Herbert  Wassell   1  " 

Mr.  John  W.  Goodwin    1  " 

Mrs.  Mary  C.  Oppenheim,  San  Francisco,  Cal  1  " 

Mr.  J.  G.  Cantrell,  Xashville,  Tenn 1  " 

Mr.  Win.  S.  Mitchell,  Little  Rock 1  " 

Colonel  Geo.  W.  Caruth,  Little  Rock 1  " 

Mrs.  Logan  H.  Roots,  Little  Rock 2  " 

Mrs.  Louisa  F.  Bailey,  Little  Rock 1  " 

Mrs.  John  G.  Fletcher,  Little  Rock 5  " 

Mrs.  Robert  W.  Johnson 1  " 

Mrs.    Francis   Johnson    1  " 

Mr.  P.  Hotze   9  " 

Mrs.  Wm.  C.  Stout   1 

Mrs.  D.  G.  Fones 1  « 

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